The Center for Communal Studies and Collections has excellent resources on twentieth-century and contemporary North American intentional societies. The at Rice Library has materials on over 600 contemporary and historic communities, including approximately 25,000 photographs. The Center for Communal Studies (situated with the University Archives and Special Collections, Rice Library 3022) serves as a reference room and as a space for study and meetings.
From left to right: Dr. Betsy Morris, Principal consultant, Planning for Sustainable Communities, Berkeley, CA; Dr. Raines Cohen, Northern California Regional Organizer with Cohousing California; Dr. Silvia Rode, Director, Center for Communal Studies at the 91社区; Ms. Connie Pitzer; Dr. Donald Pitzer, Founder, Center for Communal Studies at the 91社区.
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Recent publications in Communal Studies