Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities

Charles wrote The Senior Cohousing Handbook and, together with Kathryn McCamant, has designed over fifty cohousing communities in the United States and consulted on many more around the world.Kathryn McCamant, and her husband Charles Durrett co-authored Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves and founded McCamant & Durrett Architects and The CoHousing Company. with their book Cohousing: A

Written by the award-winning team that wrote the original "cohousing bible" and first brought cohousing to North America, this fully-illustrated manual combines nuts-and-bolts practical considerations and design ideas with extensive case studies of dozens of diverse communities in Europe and North America.Cohousing communities create unique opportunities for designing more sustainable lifestyles. Whether urban, suburban or rural; senior or intergenerational; retrofit or new, the authors show how the physical structures of cohousing communities lend themselves to a more efficient use of resources, and make everything from gardening to childcare to socializing easier.Creating Cohousing puts the "neighbor" back into "neighborhood"; and is an essential resource for anyone interested in more

"Invaluable Resource!" according to Mk Middleton. We are in the process of creating a coho community for seniors in Raleigh NC.We are using the author of this book to guide us in the process. Invaluable!. Patrick F. said GREAT starting point.. Anyone in the early stages of examining the co-housing lifestyle would do well to start with this book.. "Five Stars" according to Nashira D. Best resource I've found to introduce cohousing to others.

The cohousing bible” by the US originators of the concept.