Intentional Community
= Intentional Community is an inclusive term for Ecovillages, cohousing communities, residential Land Trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives, intentional living, alternative communities, cooperative living, and other projects where people strive together with a common vision. [1]
Definition
From the Wikipedia:
"An intentional community is a planned residential community designed to have a much higher degree of teamwork than other communities. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and are often part of the alternative society. They typically also share responsibilities and resources. Intentional communities include cohousing communities, residential land trusts, ecovillages, communes, survivalist retreats, kibbutzim, ashrams and housing cooperatives. Typically, new members of an intentional community are selected by the community's existing membership, rather than by real-estate agents or land owners (if the land is not owned collectively by the community).
Within intentional communities the above terms have different meanings compared to the legal forms of real estate ownership that may have the same name." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_Community)