By David DeLozier
The current housing crisis has got many people rethinking the idea of how we should live in the world of the future. The old adage of "bigger is better" has proven unsustainable in many ways. Cookie cutter McMansion neighborhoods are attractive looking out the car window, but the lifestyles in these "Wysteria Lane" clones can leave the residents desperate for something more. Many people are looking for ways to live more affordably and self sufficiently, in harmony with their surroundings. There is a grass-roots movement of people out to create what is being called "Intentional Communities." Not the communes of the 60's heydays, but a new type of neighborhood where people are integrated to the land and with each other, working together in a partnership to enhance the whole to create a dynamic living arrangement. In an intentional community, a part of the design is the gathering places that provide opportunity to meet your neighbors in natural ways - Common Gardens, meeting spaces, exercise trails, and shared activities.
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