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Creating Cohousing : Building Sustainable Communities.
Title:
Creating Cohousing : Building Sustainable Communities.
Author:
McCamant, Kathryn.
ISBN:
9781550924657
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (394 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Advance Praise -- Title Page -- Rights Page -- Dedication -- Join the Conversation -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface: About the Third Edition -- Part One: Introducing Cohousing -- Chapter 1: Addressing Our Changing Lifestyles -- Chapter 2: How Cohousing Works - Nevada City Cohousing -- Chapter 3: An Old Idea - A Contemporary Approach -- Part Two: Cohousing Communities in Europe: An Inside Look -- Chapter 4: The Evolution of Cohousing in Europe -- Chapter 5: Trudeslund - The Definition of Cohousing -- Chapter 6: Sun and Wind + Overdrevet -- Saving Energy Together -- Chapter 7: Jerngarden - Improving on City Life -- Chapter 8: Jystrup Savværket - Glass, Color, and Community -- Chapter 9: Tornevangsgarden - Small Can Be Beautiful -- Chapter 10: Bondebjerget - Four in One -- Chapter 11: Drejerbanken - Half Owners, Half Renters -- Part Three: Two Decades of Cohousing in North America -- Chapter 12: FrogSong Cohousing - Mixed Use, Smart Growth -- Chapter 13: Hearthstone Cohousing - The Catalyst to a Larger New Urbanist Neighborhood -- Chapter 14: Bellingham Cohousing - Save the Wetland - Save the Planet -- Chapter 15: Muir Commons - First Steps Toward an American Model -- Chapter 16: Doyle Street - An Urban Neighborhood -- Chapter 17: Southside Park Cohousing - Great Inner City Growth -- Chapter 18: Jamaica Plain Cohousing - Another Urban Solution -- Chapter 19: Berkeley Cohousing - Taking Back the Neighborhood -- Chapter 20: Temescal Commons and Temescal Creek - Neighboring Infill Retrofit Communities -- Chapter 21: Swan's Market Cohousing - Inner City Adaptive Reuse -- Chapter 22: WindSong Cohousing - Community Under Glass -- Chapter 23: Quayside Village Cohousing - Elegant Density -- Chapter 24: Fresno Cohousing - Building a Community During a Recession.

Chapter 25: Belfast Cohousing and Ecovillage - Sustainable Living and Farmland Preservation -- Chapter 26: Yarrow Ecovillage - Cohousing as a Building Block to the Ecovillage -- Part Four: Creating Cohousing -- Chapter 27: From Dream to Reality - The Development Process -- Chapter 28: The Participatory Design Process -- Chapter 29: Cohousing Design - A Pattern Language -- Part Five: Sustainability, Longevity, and the Cohousing Legacy -- Chapter 30: Cohousing and Community - The Secret Ingredients to Sustainability -- Chapter 31: Happily Ever Aftering in Cohousing -- Chapter 32: The Legacy of Cohousing - Proving the Possibilities for Community -- Afterword -- Select Bibliography -- Notes -- Index -- About the Authors.
Abstract:
The cohousing “bible” by the US originators of the concept.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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