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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Intentional Communities"”.
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Commitment, religiosity, and alienation: a study of seven intentional communities
The study was concerned with the communal movement as an illustration of Sorokin's thesis. Sorokin maintains that our culture is moving from a sensate or this-worldly form to an ideational or other-worldly definition of reality. It was shown through the works of Kanter and Fairfield that the …
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A Comparison of Morris' News from Nowhere and Life in the Twin Oaks Community
… demonstrate that the experiences of contemporary intentional communities such as Twin Oaks provide a meaningful context for reading News from Nowhere because of the similarities in goals and philosophy. It will further demonstrate that though Twin Oaks was originally inspired by a utopian novel …
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Ecovillages as models for sustainable urban neighborhoods : design guidelines and methods for understanding, analyzing and designing sustainable communities
Ecovillages, which are grassroots intentional communities focused on the shared values of environmental sustainability and community-building, offer an alternative to traditional development primarily focused on developer profit, which creates incentives to build cheaply with little consideration …
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Community-Based Organizations and the Challenges of the Anthropocene
… housing, healthcare, mobility, education, intentional communities, local currency, finance). key stakeholder of each CBO has been interview through a semi-structured interview, and where available secondary data was also collected. Interview data have been transcribed and coded on a …
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Making Community in the Wilderness: A Case Study of Women's Land's Throughout the United States
… not designed to support old women slowly, and unintentionally, become retirement communities. Families of choice, often consisting of the other women living in the community, help the women who need extra assistance, but within limits set by an unaddressed ageism. The lands are at risk if they …
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“Stepsons and Stepdaughters”: Chosen Communities, Religion, Faith, and LGBT Liberation
… took on in place of religious and faith-based communities. The new discourse behind the LGBT rights movement’s recent popularity and credibility in popular culture in the U.S. created a generation of activists who grew up both within and outside of religious communities that affirmed an …
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Rezidenční mobilita a naplňování idejí cohousingu v každodenním životě obyvatel: případová studie projektu Klidná
The thesis deals with cohousing; a concept of living based on common spaces and shared facilities. In the first phase, the aim is to provide a summary of the development of cohousing and other similar forms of housing in the world and also in Czechia. The second phase focuses on a concrete by …
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Gemeinschaftsbildung im Exil: Chancen und Gefahren des Zusammenlebens am Beispiel der Colonia Dignidad in Chile
… positiven Aspekte des Gemeinschaftslebens einer intentionalen Gemeinschaft auf das Gemeinschaftsleben der Villa Baviera übertragen werden könnten.