Recommended books, CDs, DVDs and relevant literature
If you're looking for good books on co-housing, here's a few that people in the network can recommend. Most of them are talking about US cohousing, but they are nevertheless relevant to the UK. Click on the links for a fuller description.
If you want to buy a book and you're feeling virtuous, we recommend you try either the publisher directly, or News from Nowhere, Liverpool's radical bookshop. They should be able to order in anything you'd be able to get from Amazon and post it to you - and the profits will be keeping a fantastic independent bookstore going. Details of publishers, including the ISBN if we have it, can be found by clicking on the book links below.
| Name | Author(s) | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thinking about cohousing | Martin Field | 2005 | The best guide to cohousing in the UK from a housing policy expert |
| Cohousing | Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett | 1998 | Comes highly recommended as a good book for getting a feel of what co-housing is all about. |
| The Cohousing Handbook: Building a Place for Community | Kelly Scott Hanson | 2005 | A very good 'how to' book. |
| Senior Cohousing: A Community Approach to Independent Living | Charles Durrett | 2005 | Good regarding the process of achieving cohousing, as well as the specifics of senior cohousing. |
| Reinventing Community: Stories from the Walkways of Cohousing | David Wann (Ed) | 2005 | Stories covering everything from planning a community to moving in to the joys and challenges of daily life |
| Diggers and Dreamers | Sarah Bunker, Chris Coates and Jonathan How (Eds) | 2007 | The definitive UK guide to communal living |
| Voices of Cohousing DVD | Matthieu Lietaert | 2007 | Voices of Cohousing - Building Small Villages In The City |
| CoHousing Communities of Older People | Maria Brenton | 2001 | An article about cohousing in an ageing society |
| Choosing and managing your own community in later life | Maria Brenton | 2002 | An article about managing communal living in later life |
| Cohousing Communities for Older People | Maria Brenton | 2004 | An article about senior cohousing |
| The Cohousing Approach to 'Lifetime Neighbourhoods' | Maria Brenton | 2008 | How local authorities can work with public and private partners to develop a cohousing approach to government sought aims on housing in an ageing society |
| Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities | Diana Leaf Christian | 2003 | By an inspirational and highly experienced facilitator with extensive knowledge of cohousing. |
| Head, Heart and Hands: Lessons in Community Building | Shari Leach | 2005 | The author has grown up in cohousing and has first hand experience of developing cohousing from scratch. |