PUBLICATIONS ON COHOUSING COMMUNITIES

Cohousing Communities of older people

Maria Brenton, (1998)  We’re in charge’. Cohousing Communities of Older People in the Netherlands: Lessons for Britain?published by the Policy Press. 

Maria Brenton (1999) Choice, autonomy and mutual support: older women’s collaborative living arrangements  (York Publishing Services).

Maria Brenton (2001) ‘Cohousing Communities of Older People’ in S.Peace & C.Holland, (eds)  Inclusive Housing in an Ageing Society, Bristol, Policy Press.

Maria Brenton (2002) ‘Choosing and managing your own community in later life’ in K.Sumner (ed)  Our homes, our lives: choice in later life living arrangements. London, Centre for Policy on Ageing/ Housing Corporation.

Maria Brenton (2004) ‘Cohousing Communities for older people’ in M.Field, Thinking about Cohousing, Diggers and Dreamers.
Charles Durrett, (2009) ‘The Senior Cohousing Handbook: a community approach to independent living’. New Society publishers, USA. www.newsociety.com

Cohousing Communities in general

M.Field (2004) Thinking about Cohousing, Diggers and Dreamers.
Fromm, D. (1991) Collaborative Communities: Cohousing, Central Living and other forms of new housing with shared facilities, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

C.Hanson, (1996) ‘The Cohousing handbook: building a place for community’, Hartley and Marks, Vancouver.
McCamant, K. & Durrett, C.  (1989) ‘Cohousing in Denmark’  in  New Households; New Housing, eds.Karen Franck & Sherry Ahrentzen, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

McCamant, K. &  Durrett, C. with E. Hertzman (1994) ‘Cohousing: a contemporary approach to housing ourselves’, Berkeley, California: Ten Speed Press. This is known as the ‘bible’ of the Cohousing movement)

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‘The Cohousing Approach to ‘Lifetime Neighbourhoods’.
Maria Brenton considers how local authorities can work with public and private sector partners to develop a co-housing approach to the outcomes sought from the government’s national strategy on housing for an ageing society and it offers recommendations for action.
http://networks.csip.org.uk/_library/Resources/Housing/Support_materials/Factsheets/Factsheet29.pdf

Seniors Cohousing Communities in the USA
Charles Durrett, (2009) The Senior Cohousing Handbook: a community approach to independent living. New Society publishers, USA.

www.newsociety.com

www.cohousing.org

www.cohousing.org.uk

www.owch.org.uk

http://www.owch.org.uk/owchpages/Book%20Order%20Form.pdf