Slow Acre

"I miss when I could walk over and ask for a cup of sugar," a longtime neighbor told me. Most housing is designed for speed, so it quietly decides that residents won't meet.

• A 20-home neighborhood plan built around everyday contact: shared paths, porches that face each other, common gardens.
• A written business plan, plus papers on loneliness and human connection in the age of AI.
• A pilot in my own apartment building: a monthly potluck that grew from 8 people to 50.

Before drawing anything, I interviewed people who already live in cohousing, so the design comes from residents rather than my assumptions.

• 300+ cohousing residents interviewed
• Plans reviewed by architects
• Feedback from 15 HOAs
• Approved by 4 developers and HOAs

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