Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities
By (Author) Charles Durrett
By (author) Kathryn McCamant
New Society Publishers
New Society Publishers
7th June 2011
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Architecture: residential and domestic buildings
728.31
Physical Properties
Paperback
336
Width 191mm, Height 229mm, Spine 17mm
675g
Description
The cohousing bible by the US originators of the concept.
Author Bio
Charles Durrett and his wife Kathryn McCamant are award-winning architects who introduced the concept of cohousing to the US. with their book Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves . 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. They coined the term "cohousing" for which they are credited in the Oxford English Dictionary. Kathryn has designed and developed dozens of cohousing communities and founded Cohousing Partners in 2006 with developer Jim Leach.
