Housing and Community Development

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for architect working on projects - planning, housing, retail, etc, - in mixed income communities, this HUD article provides some good observations from several ethnographic studies conducted in Boston and Chicago.

http://network.aia.org/hkc/Resources/ViewDocument/?DocumentKey=ec50b6b7-4d52-404c-b142-9e25b490a83a

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Katherine Williams AIA
Chesterfield VA
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Katherine and All-

Thank you for sharing this resource. I'd be interested in knowing more about the ways in which architects are addressing community interaction in their work in mixed-income communities.

This issue is particularly important as we are learning more about social isolation, which increased from 10% of the population in 1984 to 25% in 2004, and the challenges of developing trust in diverse communities I find the Saguaro Seminar founded by Robert Putnam of Bowling Alone fame to be a good source of information on this issue, http://www.hks.harvard.edu/programs/saguaro/about/who-we-are.

In the Housing KC webinar Research and Practice, Jamie Horwitz describes how her research revealed that a variety of types of spaces located on paths within senior housing can facilitate positive interaction. http://network.aia.org/hkc/Resources/ViewDocument/?DocumentKey=6479934c-30aa-4b10-9463-81ad5315b03b

What design strategies are being employed or could be employed to address interaction among diverse populations?

Kathy

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Kathleen Dorgan AIA
Principal
Dorgan Architecture & Planning
Storrs CT
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Cohousing neighborhoods, featuring both physical design and intentional social interaction seeking to work against the trending isolation that Putnam documents, is making a more headway, in my opinion.

See http://www.cohousing.org/ for more info on cohousing.

See http://www.affordablecohousing.org/ for more info on Partnerships for Affordable Cohousing - a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization looking to promote mixed-income cohousing communities.

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Jerome Garciano Assoc. AIA, Esq., LEED AP
Attorney
Klein Hornig LLP
Winchester MA
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-22-2013 13:44
From: Kathleen Dorgan
Subject: ethnographic studies of mixed income communities

Katherine and All-

Thank you for sharing this resource. I'd be interested in knowing more about the ways in which architects are addressing community interaction in their work in mixed-income communities.

This issue is particularly important as we are learning more about social isolation, which increased from 10% of the population in 1984 to 25% in 2004, and the challenges of developing trust in diverse communities I find the Saguaro Seminar founded by Robert Putnam of Bowling Alone fame to be a good source of information on this issue, http://www.hks.harvard.edu/programs/saguaro/about/who-we-are.

In the Housing KC webinar Research and Practice, Jamie Horwitz describes how her research revealed that a variety of types of spaces located on paths within senior housing can facilitate positive interaction. http://network.aia.org/hkc/Resources/ViewDocument/?DocumentKey=6479934c-30aa-4b10-9463-81ad5315b03b

What design strategies are being employed or could be employed to address interaction among diverse populations?

Kathy

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Kathleen Dorgan AIA
Principal
Dorgan Architecture & Planning
Storrs CT
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