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We Built a Village: Cohousing and the Commons

We Built a Village: Cohousing and the Commons - Paperback

by Diane Rothbard Margolis
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Availability:In StockContributor:Diane Rothbard Margolis, David Bollier (Foreword by)Publish date:2022-08-23Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Village PressISBN-13:9781613321782ISBN-10:1613321783UPC:9781613321782Book Category:Social Science, Family & Relationships, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Sociology, Alternative Family, MovementsBook Topic:Urban, HumanismSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCNBSV7HQ2

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Village PressISBN-13:9781613321782ISBN-10:1613321783UPC:9781613321782Book Category:Social Science, Family & Relationships, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Sociology, Alternative Family, MovementsBook Topic:Urban, HumanismSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCNBSV7HQ2
Diana Margolis (Author)
Diane Margolis is a founding member of Cambridge Cohousing where she has lived for more than twenty years. She is a former member of the Coho/US Board of Directors and co-founder and Director Emeritus of the Cohousing Research Network. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 1980-1981. She has published many research articles, and her books include The Fabric of Self, which won Honorable Mention at the First Annual Book Award of the Eastern Sociological Society. She is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut.


Publisher: New Village Press

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Diane Rothbard Margolis, David Bollier (Foreword by)

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Diane Rothbard Margolis

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