1. Alternative Americas
   An informal history by the grandmother of the counter-culture
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1982
   
2. Building Sustainable Communities
   Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1989
   The major sections of the book deal with community land trusts and other forms of community ownership of natural resources, worker-managed enterprises and other techniques of community self-management, and community currency and banking.
3. Challenging McWorld
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2001
   
4. Circles of Strength
   Community Alternatives to Alienation
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1993
   Forsey, an activist and writer who works with the Federation of Egalitarian Communites has put together a collection of essays, and interviews with First Nations, religious orders and rural intentional communities giving their views and experiences as communities.
   
5. The Communistic Societies of the United States
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1875   Published: 1965
   Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
6. The Communitarian Network
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   A coalition of individuals and organizations who have come together to shore up the moral, social, and political environment.
7. Community Dreams 
   Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1984
   A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
8. Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
9. Description of Recently Founded Communist Colonies Still in Existence
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1844   Published: 1845
   If the workers are united among themselves, hold together and pursue one purpose, they are infinitely stronger than the rich. And if, moreover, they have set their sights upon such a rational purpose, and one which desires the best for all mankind, as community of goods, it is self-evident that the better and more intelligent among the rich will declare themselves in agreement with the workers and support them.
10. Deutschsprachiges Kommunitariernetz
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    German-language communitarian site.
11. Egalitarian community
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Group of people who have chosen to live together, with egalitarianism as one of their core values.
12. Fighting for Hope 
    Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
13. Follow the Dirt Road
    An Introduction to Intential Communities in the 1990s
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Portrays the successes and struggles of communal life in the United States in the 1990s.
14. Historical Survey of Communities in Toronto
    New Communities and the Institutional Church
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    A review of the phenomenon of community in the city in the sixties and seventies.
15. How People Get Power
    Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
16. Inclusion or exclusion 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
    
17. Intentional Communities
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Resource for intentional Communities including ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects.
18. Intentional Communities Upcoming Events
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Events for those involved in creating intentional communities.
19. Interactions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976   Published: 1975
    Remarks made at a meeting of New Communities and representatives of the Churches of Toronto.
20. Investing in a Sustainable Future
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    The Cerro Gordo community.
21. Kommune Niederkaufungen
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    One of the largest intentional communities in Germany.
22. Living with the Land
    Communities Restoring the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
23. Pragmatics Of Community Organization
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization
24. Putting Power in its Place
    Create Community Control!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    
25. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
    
26. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2008
    
27. Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
    Nineteenth-Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
28. Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
    Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
29. The Suburban Nation
    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
30. Toward Sustainable Communities
    Resources for Citizens and their Governments
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1998
    
31. Voyages To Utopia
    From Monastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
    
32. Why Do Communities Fail?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The strains that take their toll on community groups.

Experts on Communities in the Sources Directory

1. Loving More
2. The Preservation Institute