What with recent graduates and young families in need of financial help moving back in with parents, and many sharing apartments to help with expenses, the concept of communal is becoming attractive again. In the U.S. communes were big in the '60s and '70s, but fell out of favor. The article on communes at Wikipedia notes:
Huffington Post has a section on Communal Living. The video below was found there.
BBC's article, "Living the communal life," gives some interesting insights into why people decide to share their living space.
This Washington Post article also has some good insights: A new generation of 'Golden Girls'. And this thread at Reddit caught my attention:
Lisa Law's history the '60s counterculture and of communal living at Smithsonian's site gives a detailed account of how and why they lived on that frontier.
-- Marge
Andrew Jacobs of The New York Times wrote that, contrary to popular misconceptions, "most communes of the '90s are not free-love refuges for flower children, but well-ordered, financially solvent cooperatives where pragmatics, not psychedelics, rule the day." There are many contemporary intentional communities all over the world, a list of which can be found at the Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC).
Huffington Post has a section on Communal Living. The video below was found there.
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BBC's article, "Living the communal life," gives some interesting insights into why people decide to share their living space.
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| Living the communal life, BBC (Julius Schrank/www.juliusschrank.de) |
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This Washington Post article also has some good insights: A new generation of 'Golden Girls'. And this thread at Reddit caught my attention:
Lisa Law's history the '60s counterculture and of communal living at Smithsonian's site gives a detailed account of how and why they lived on that frontier.
-- Marge
