'Community' remains a great concern of our times. As alienation and depersonalisation grow, many people are searching for more rewarding models of community living -- from extended family situations, to short-term live-in experiments among friends, highly planned co-housing developments, to intentional communities based in a shared social or religious vision. This practical and inspirational book provides the context that community living requires, and explores the delights, challenges, possibilities and heartbreaks of living with others. Hogeland interweaves stories and interviews collected from over seventeen years of community living.