Small community

Escape Tampa Bay Village joins the movement toward compact living.

Experiments in cooperative living offer a great model for building sustainable urban communities. But can they work for everyone?

Union is a nationally practicing, mission-based firm committed to designing sustainable places that will be loved for generations.

Pocket neighborhoods are a growing trend across the United States and Canada. They create a friendly supportive community for people in many different stages of their life. Ross Chapin, an architect in Washington first coined the term pocket neighborhoods. Several of those are profiled here.

The Conestoga hut is 6 by 10 foot shelter that can be built for between $250 and $500 depending on the utilization of re-used or donated materials.

As tiny living continues to gain in popularity, tiny home communities have been popping up throughout the United States and are now available coast-to-coast.

As single-family houses become increasingly self-contained units connected to their neighbors solely by well-driven, and rarely walked, streets, Ross Chapin, FAIA author of Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World, looks at the ways in which emerging trends in neighborhood design can help rebuild the bonds of community.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (RNS) — In a time of social isolation and loneliness, cohousing communities are on the rise. Residents say life together has challenges but offers many rewards.