PHOENIX: Baby boombers are looking for ways to do retirement and aging differently from their parents, and cohousing is one such avenue. Cohousing is an intentional community designed to bring back and expand upon the close knit neighbourhoods of the past.
Both architects, McCamant, along with her husband Charles Durrett, lived in and studied cohousing in the Netherlands in the 1980s and brought the concept to the United States at that time. They are the coauthors of the book “Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities”. McCamant has been involved in the formation of over 50 such communities.