Jean Mason, The View from #410: When Home is Cohousing
10/05/2010 7:00 pm
“...a
delightfully written account of life in a cohousing community with its
vagaries; its ups and downs. The book gives both a glimpse into an
alternative type of community life and a lively picture of the people
engaged in and committed to the process of making decisions and getting
along together.” Sarah James, co-author of The Natural Step for Communities
The
View From #410 delivers a unique insider's account of the development
and life of a thriving Cambridge, Massachusetts cohousing community.
This true story, told by Jean Mason, an early pioneer, chronicles how
the search for an antidote to the urban isolation so pervasive in
contemporary society helped establish the Danish shared living concept
known as cohousing in the United States.
Follow
Jean Mason and her husband Ed as they make the decision to leave the
single-family home where they lived for fifty years to help found
Cambridge Cohousing, a multi-generational, forty-one unit urban
cohousing project. Their remarkable journey will challenge readers to
reconsider traditional notions of home, community, and the true nature
of the American Dream.
