[SustainableTompkins] Communal cooking as sustainable alternative

[geoplan57 at aim.com]

For those of you who are interested in communal cooking, even on a small scale, I recommend reading Dolores Hayden's book "Grand Domestic Revolution."? 

It chronicles a number of efforts in the late 1800s early 1900s by feminists and other progressive thinkers such as Ebenezer Howard (Garden Cities of Tomorrow) to develop common kitchens for on a scale ranging from multiple family housing cooperatives to entire communities.

Hayden also does a good job of documenting the development of the American near fetish-like attraction?for living in single-family detached homes.

It's a required reading in just about every one of my land use and urban planning workshop courses.



George R. Frantz
George R. Frantz & Associates
Visiting Lecturer
Cornell University Dept. of City & Regional Planning?
604 Cliff Street
Ithaca, New York 14850
(607) 256-9310

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