Collaborative Happiness: Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities

Understudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under—recognized in policy—making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing as simultaneously social and subjective, while catering for groups of people so diverse in age. Collaborative Happiness looks at two such urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and...