Table of Contents
Contemporary Pocket Neighborhoods featured in the book:
Conover Commons, Redmond, WA
Danielson Grove, Kirkland, WA
Third Street Cottages, Langley, WA
Greenwood Avenue, Shoreline, WA
Groom Lane, Seattle
Barrio Santa Rosa, Tucson, AZ
Cota Street, Santa Barbara, CA
Village Homes, Davis, CA
N Street, Davis, CA
Temescal Creek, North Oakland, CA
Houseboat community, Sausalito, CA
Berkeley Cohousing, Berkeley, CA
Doyle Street, Emeryville, CA
Swan’s Market, Oakland, CA
Cheesecake Consortium, northern CA
Poplar neighborhood, Boulder, CO
Silver Sage, Boulder, CO
Portland, OR
Cambridge, MA
Island Cohousing, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Elder Cohousing, Abington, VA
Christie Walk, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
EarthSong, NEW ZEALAND
Historic Precedents
Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Forest Hills, NY
Sunnyside Gardens, NY
Radburn, NJ
Pine Street, Seattle
Bungalow Courts, southern CA
Foreword, by Sarah Susanka
Introduction: What Is a Pocket Neighborhood?
Part One Precedents: Historic Pocket Neighborhoods
Chapter 1 Setting Up Camp
Chapter 2 Gardens of Compassion
Chapter 3 Visions of Garden Cities
Chapter 4 The Bungalow Courts of California
Chapter 5 Cottage Living
Part Two Contemporary Pocket Neighborhoods
Chapter 6 A New Cottage Court
Chapter 7 A Neighborhood within a Neighborhood
Chapter 8 A Pocket Neighborhood on a Challenging Site
Chapter 9 The Neighborhood the Neighbors Built
Chapter 10 Floating Communities
Chapter 11 Lanes, Woonerfs, and Mental Speed Bumps
Chapter 12 Back House, Front House, Lane
Chapter 13 New Urban Pocket Neighborhoods
Chapter 14 Lines of Enticement
Chapter 15 Pocket Neighborhoods within a Village
Part Three CoHousing Communities
Chapter 16 Danish Origins
Chapter 17 CoHousing in America
Chapter 18 Greening the Neighborhood
Chapter 19 Saging Communities
Part Four Creating Pocket Neighborhoods in Existing Communities
Chapter 20 Infill in a First-Ring Suburb
Chapter 21 Urban Homesteads
Chapter 22 Taking Down the Fences
Chapter 23 Taking Back the Alley
Chapter 24 Taking Back the Street
Afterword: A Tapestry of Pocket Neighborhoods
Resources
Index