DVD,
Books (Livres) & Audiovisual
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Building
Community with Cohousing
To order your high resolution version of Building Community with Cohousing suitable
for large screen viewing, please click here.To view the full length
web version on your browser, just click the play button on the player below. If you experience
problems loading the video below, you can click
here to view it on
the Youtube website. In Building Community with Cohousing, film makers Dany
Gagnon and Regan Payne interview cohousing residents from WindSong
Cohousing Community (completed 1996), Cranberry Commons Cohousing
(completed 2001) and Roberts Creek Cohousing (completed 2005). This
video is entertaining, informative, heart-warming and inspiring.
It provides a general overview of the concept and can be used to
help educate the general public, developers, planners, and people
interested in joining a completed or forming cohousing community.
The video was produced by the Canadian Cohousing Network, funded
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Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities by Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett Introducing the new cohousing "bible" with many new North American case studies, design principles and sustainable design practices. With over 120 cohousing communities now in existence in North America, Katie McCamant and Chuck Durrett bring us a totally updated "must-have" book for anyone interested in creating more people-friendly neighborhoods. The new book is a fully-illustrated manual that combines nuts-and-bolts practical considerations, design ideas and real life examples - all of which are illustrated with extensive case studies of diverse communities in Europe and North America. Creating Cohousing draws on the author's wealth of experience designing, developing and living in these cutting-edge neighborhoods, with chapters on cohousing and sustainable design principles, and illustrates how cohousing offers a uniquely rewarding type of housing for anyone who values their independence but longs for more connection with those around them. |
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| Cohousing:
A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves by Kathryn McCamant, Charles Durrett, and Ellen Hertzman Read the book that started it all. |
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Cohousing Handbook: Building a Place for Community by Chris ScottHanson & Kelly ScottHanson As pioneers in the development of cohousing in North America, Chris and Kelly ScottHanson offer individuals and new groups a wealth of information and practical hints on how the process works. The Cohousing Handbook covers every element that goes into the creation of a cohousing project, including group processes, land acquisition, finance and budgets, construction, development professionals, design considerations, permits, approvals and membership. |
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| Creating
a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional
Communities by Diana Leafe Christian This book provides step-by-step practical information on how to establish an intentional community. It deals in depth with structural, interpersonal and leadership issues, decision-making methods, vision statements, and the development of a legal structure, as well as profiling well-established model communities. |
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autrement: Ecovillages, communautés et cohabitats de Diana Leafe Christian (Auteur), Sylvie Fortier (Traduction) Devant l'incontestable urgence de changer notre mode de vie, de plus en plus nombreux sont ceux qui se tournent vers des alternatives , comme les cohabitats, les écovillages et les communautés intentionnelles. La vie en communauté est un choix parfois difficile, mais intelligent, qui permettra à de plus en plus de gens de rejeter le système égoïste de l'« auto-boulot-bungalow » et de vivre en harmonie avec l'environnement et avec leurs valeurs. |
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| The Senior Cohousing Handbook: A Community Approach to Independent Living 2009 Edition by Charles Durrett Excerpt from this new edition (available in May 2009): Currently, seniors represent a record 12.4 percent of the American population, which, with the swell of post-WWII baby boomers entering seniorhood, will increase to 20 percent by the year 2030. Clearly, action must be taken, and quickly, to correct these household and community shortcomings. But what can be done, and by whom? How can we better house ourselves as we age? I believe that the answer lies in senior cohousing communities. Having visited many of these communities, I’m now a firm believer that 20 seniors stranded on a desert island would do better at taking care of most of their basic needs than the same 20 left isolated or in an institution. — Charles Durrett |
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Cohousing: A Community Approach to Independent Living 2005 Edition by Charles Durrett Cohousing is an entirely new way for seniors to house themselves with dignity, independence, safety, mutual concern, and fun. Providing an inside look at existing communities, Senior Cohousing demonstrates how people can make the conscious choice to live independently through community. |
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House A Home by Susan McFee Over the past 12 years of living at WindSong and going to Evan's school and activities, I've often found that there was no simple way to explain cohousing without showing people around WindSong. That is where this idea for the first children's book about cohousing came from. In it we playfully ask the question "What makes a house into a home?" and through Marjorie's fantasy and reality styled artwork we find that cohousing can lead to the answer. |
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Living Together: Cohousing Ideas and Realities Around the World by Dick Urban Vestbro Edited by Professor Dick Urban Vestbro, this book is based on the first International Conference on Collaborative Housing, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden in May 2010. The book contains 11 plenary papers, three specially written papers and elaborate reports from the 16 conference workshops. It includes examples from Europe, North America, Australia, Japan and other countries. With its 234 pages and 180 illustrations it is an excellent resource for researchers, housing companies, politicians, activists and non-government organizations. |
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What is Cohousing? (Powerpoint Presentation) by CDC Cohousing Development Consulting The purpose of this PowerPoint presentation is to inform people new to Cohousing about what it is, what it offers and the forms it can take. You don't need a PowerPoint program to use this presentation because it is available in a self launching format that will run on any Microsoft operating system. |
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the Dream produced by Jill Eisen Building the Dream is two-part audio cassette series about cohousing originally produced for CBC Radio's Ideas program. The series includes visits to several cohousing communities in British Columbia, as well as interviews with Jan Gudmand-Hoyer, the originator of cohousing in Denmark, Kathryn McCamant, co-author of Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves, and Dolores Hayden, author of Redesigning the American Dream. |
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