The GOOD Guide to Better Neighborhoods
More for GOOD. I contributed a handful of pieces to the GOOD Guide to Better Neighborhoods, in GOOD 19 (the neighborhoods issue). It’s all online; my bits include:
+ How to Throw a Block Party
+ How to Meet Your Neighbors (Without Seeming Like a Crazy Person)
+ How to Get a Billboard Taken Down (Or at Least Complain About One)
+ How to Get a Stop Sign or Crosswalk Put In
…and most fun of all (for this reporter), a little feature (and how-to) on communal living.
Researching it gave me a chance to learn about cohousing, a form of fairly low-intensity communal living (residents own private dwellings and jointly own indoor/outdoor common space), which arose in Denmark and has been attempting to put down roots in the U.S. since the ’90s. Since 2007, a new urbanist named Alex Marshall has been trying to bring it to New York.
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