Our Winter 2017 issue, Urban Communities, takes readers on a journey from the US East Coast through middle America to the West Coast, then to Canada and overseas. The communities featured span an equally broad range—from communes to cohousing, from outward-focused to more inward-focused, from retrofit to custom-built, from ecovillages, intentional neighborhood projects, and service-oriented groups to broader efforts to expand and strengthen the urban commons. As our stories make clear, and despite popular preconceptions, in many ways no setting is better suited to intentional community than an urban one—and, even short of full intentional community, city-dwellers have many, ever-evolving options for creating more connection, mutual support, and sharing in their lives.
Articles In Urban Communities:
Back to the City! by GPaul Blundell
Ganas: Finding Home in an Urban Community by Aviva Derenowski
DC Community Evolution and Change: Perspectives from Lutheran Volunteer Corps by Sarah Beck
1605 Commune, Washington DC by Bryan Allen Moore
Honoring the Conversation: Turning a Neighborhood into a Community in Intown Atlanta by Stephen Wing
Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage: A 13-Year-Old Retrofit Ecovillage in Cincinnati, Ohio by Jim Schenk
The Radical Sabbatical: Discerning an Urban-to-Rural Move by Laura Lasuertmer
Supported Growth by Amanda Crowell
The Dolphin House, Looking Forward by Brittny Love
Activating the Urban Commons by Neal Gorenflo
Compact Community at Maitreya EcoVillage in Eugene, Oregon by Robert Bolman
Green and Resilient Neighborhoods: Portland, Oregon and Beyond by Jan Spencer
Making a Case for Urban Cohousing by Grace H. Kim
Community-Building in the City by Sheila Hoffman and Spencer Beard
Terra Firma: A Single Mother Discovers Community by Shoshana Magnet
Urban Kibbutzim: A Growing Movement by Anton Marks
Dreaming of a Shared City: Akko Educators’ Kibbutz by Gabriel Freund
Notes from the Editor--Living for the City by Chris Roth
Reviews--Living Sustainably by Sarah M. Pike
Hippie Family Values by Chris Roth
Our Winter 2017 issue, Urban Communities, takes readers on a journey from the US East Coast through middle America to the West Coast, then to Canada and overseas. The communities featured span an equally broad range—from communes to cohousing, from outward-focused to more inward-focused, from retrofit to custom-built, from ecovillages, intentional neighborhood projects, and service-oriented groups to broader efforts to expand and strengthen the urban commons. As our stories make clear, and despite popular preconceptions, in many ways no setting is better suited to intentional community than an urban one—and, even short of full intentional community, city-dwellers have many, ever-evolving options for creating more connection, mutual support, and sharing in their lives.
Articles In Urban Communities:
Back to the City! by GPaul Blundell
Ganas: Finding Home in an Urban Community by Aviva Derenowski
DC Community Evolution and Change: Perspectives from Lutheran Volunteer Corps by Sarah Beck
1605 Commune, Washington DC by Bryan Allen Moore
Honoring the Conversation: Turning a Neighborhood into a Community in Intown Atlanta by Stephen Wing
Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage: A 13-Year-Old Retrofit Ecovillage in Cincinnati, Ohio by Jim Schenk
The Radical Sabbatical: Discerning an Urban-to-Rural Move by Laura Lasuertmer
Supported Growth by Amanda Crowell
The Dolphin House, Looking Forward by Brittny Love
Activating the Urban Commons by Neal Gorenflo
Compact Community at Maitreya EcoVillage in Eugene, Oregon by Robert Bolman
Green and Resilient Neighborhoods: Portland, Oregon and Beyond by Jan Spencer
Making a Case for Urban Cohousing by Grace H. Kim
Community-Building in the City by Sheila Hoffman and Spencer Beard
Terra Firma: A Single Mother Discovers Community by Shoshana Magnet
Urban Kibbutzim: A Growing Movement by Anton Marks
Dreaming of a Shared City: Akko Educators’ Kibbutz by Gabriel Freund
Notes from the Editor--Living for the City by Chris Roth
Reviews--Living Sustainably by Sarah M. Pike
Hippie Family Values by Chris Roth