A recent book by Ross Chapin, Pocket Neighborhoods, explores a range of ideas for living in a way where you feel connected to your neighbors.
The book's subtitle is 'Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World,' and the reader indeed emerges with a sense that there are multiple ways to skin that cat. Certainly, co-housing is given its due. But for people who are looking for a connection that is more bounded, the descriptions of neighborhoods created around walk streets or shared courtyards will provide a launchpad for new daydreams.
