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Ady Leverette, Sienna Hill and Peter Siu Kau Lo describe their project, “Co-housing is a form of cooperative living that started in Scandanavia and is becoming increasingly popular in North America. Originally founded in rural and suburban settings, co-housing developments aim to create a deeper sense of community among the residents. Now as people reinvest in city centers and recognize the environmental benefits of dense settlement patterns, the co-housing model is being successfully applied to urban contexts. East Portland Co-housing has a vision to establish a diverse and ecologically-minded intentional community at Mitchell Court, currently a 1970s vintage apartment complex with many potential assets. Our approach for the master planning of this large site has been to implement few but focused interventions to the existing conditions in order to satisfy the needs of the co-housing community as well as address the greater neighborhood.”