The newest book by Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett, from the Cohousing Company, who had a hand in helping develop Highline Crossing and many other cohousing communities across North America.
Books on Community
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The granddaddy of all cohousing books! McCamant and Durrett were instrumental in bringing cohousing to the States.
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How to create sustainable communities in the midst of the suburbs. Ideas range from community dinners, to neighborhood watches, to community supported agriculture.
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Another book by David Wann, author of Superbia.
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A book that reminds us of the importances of warm and lively public spaces and the importance of good conversation to civic life. Rising above a life-style enclave or a networking event, the local watering hole is essential to community. In cohousing the role is often filled by the common house.
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Robert D. Putman's pulls out all the sociological data to document the decline of public and community life in America since the Second World War. A bleak assessment of the present state of American civic life that underlines the need for such neighborhood-building movements as cohousing.
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Well, not really a book on cohousing, but a book by a cohouser. James Frey is Highline Crossing's unofficial poet laureate.
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