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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on June 1, 2006
Community Development Journal 2006 41(3):393-398; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsl015
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Sustainable Community: Learning from the Cohousing Model

Graham Meltzer, 2005, ISBN 1-4120-4994-6

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

In his foreword to the text, Ian Lowe, Emeritus Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Griffith University, asserts that ‘Graham Meltzer has done us all a distinct service by researching, writing and publishing this book [v]’. This reviewer disagrees: the text promises much, much more than it delivers or could have delivered.

The difficulty starts with the aim of the book. The author opens by asking why ‘... intelligent, informed, well-meaning people have such difficulty "walking their environmentalist talk [1]"’. This question supplies the goal of the book: ‘The principle [sic] intent of this book is to provide answers to this question and to suggest how things might be different [1]’. And he goes further: ‘... this book reveals further causes [of the disconnection between environmental awareness and consumerist behaviour]. It shows how the quality of our social relationships and our "sense of community" are major determinants of our . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Vincent George

National Housing Trust, Jamaica; email: vgeorge@nht.gov.jm


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