We Built a Village : Cohousing and the Commons.
Margolis, Diane Rothbard, author.; Bollier, David.
2022
HD7287.7.M4 M37 2022
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Title We Built a Village : Cohousing and the Commons.
Author Margolis, Diane Rothbard, author.
ISBN 9781613321812 electronic book
1613321813 electronic book
Published New York : New Village Press, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (241 p.)
Call Number HD7287.7.M4 M37 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 334.1097444
Summary Describes the development of one of the first cohousing communities in the U.S. offering a social understanding of its commons. Cohousing, a form of communal living that clusters around shared common space, began about a half century ago in Denmark. We Built a Village describes the process of planning and building of an early cohousing community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the way the people involved simultaneously built their homes and their social structure. As both a memoir and a sociological analysis that probes the differences between commons and markets, it is unique among books about cohousing. When this group of people began in the late 1990s to construct their cohousing community, they set in motion a counterpoint between the physical spaces and the social configurations that would guide their lives together, even up to creative responses to the recent pandemic.-- Provided by publisher.
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Preface: We're All in This Together: The Call of the Commons
Introduction
One. I Look for a Cohousing Community
Two. Cambridge Cohousing Is Born: 1995
Three. Our Homes and Our Commons
Four. Blind Visionaries: Summer 1996
Five. The Developers Take Over
Full Steam Ahead: Fall 1996
Photo Gallery I
Six. We Choose Our Units: January 1997
Seven. Private Gardens and the Commons: Spring 1997
Eight. Moving Out and Moving In
My Year Without a Home
Nine. We're All In: 1998
Photo Gallery II
Ten. Settling in, Commoning, and Complaining
Eleven. A Time to Weep and a Time to Cheer
Photo Gallery III
Twelve. A Renaissance and a Pandemic

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