ISBN: 1440179824

Amazon.com customer review: (5 Stars) This is a book that I didn't want to finish! It is the real story of what happens in cohousing through the first person account of a deeply involved … More...

Amazon.com customer review: (5 Stars) This is a book that I didn't want to finish! It is the real story of what happens in cohousing through the first person account of a deeply involved participant from the earliest planning stages through the building, move in and several years of settling in. This is a detailed look at Cambridge Cohousing, a Massachusetts urban intergenerational community of 41 households. As a member of a 'Forming" group in Westport, MA., I found my self nodding YES constantly as I moved with the author through the engaging, exhausting and sometime frustrating and more often thrilling process of their complex journey. The book gave me an inside view - it made me feel as if I were there. The book gave me hope, that 'we' might do it...and why it takes so much time. I understood more about my intuitive desire NOT to live in 'senior's only community and what was so positive about families and people of all ages living in an interdependent community. I have been a student of Cohousing for about 2 years; eager to learn about this remarkable process of building community through books, articles, visits to established communities and meetings. The View from #410 is the first publication that illuminates the intense process of what it really takes to create a Cohousing community. This is a book for someone who already knows a little about cohousing and wants to understand the intricate dynamics and daily experiences of creating the shared living concept that is Co biographical,biographies,biographies and history,biography and history,memoirs Biographies, iUniverse, Incorporated<