Planned, socially-cohesive, residential community
An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork .[1] [2] [3] The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social , political , religious , or spiritual vision, and typically share responsibilities and property. This way of life is sometimes characterized as an "alternative lifestyle ".[4] Intentional communities can be seen as social experiments or communal experiments .[1] [5] The multitude of intentional communities includes collective households, cohousing communities, coliving , ecovillages , monasteries , survivalist retreats , kibbutzim , Hutterites , ashrams , and housing cooperatives .
Members of the Anabaptist Christian Bruderhof Communities live, eat, work and worship communally.
Young musicians living in a shared community in Amsterdam
Traditional ashram
Ecovillage "Velyka Rodyna" in Troshcha (Ukrainian : Троща ).