| Creating Community in the City: Cooperatives and Community Gardens in Washington, D.C. Contributor(s): Landman, Ruth H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0897893166 ISBN-13: 9780897893169 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1993 Annotation: Landman studies four communally-oriented settings in Washington's urban environment. Through ethnographic field work she learned that cooperation, sociability, and self management overcame the common urban challenges posed by isolation and largely impersonal, single purpose contact with others. The settings were a cooperative food store, a cooperative bakery, community gardens, and a cooperatively owned low-cost housing project. Landman shows how the participants in these economically related activities are socially bound together in a web of relations considered unusual in large American cities, and how these exceptionally connected urban lives prove very satisfactory. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economics - General - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning |
| Dewey: 334.1 |
| LCCN: 92042899 |
| Lexile Measure: 1340 |
| Series: Critical Studies in Education & Culture (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.42" W x 9.5" (0.96 lbs) 168 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Landman studies four communally-oriented settings in Washington's urban environment. Through ethnographic field work she learned that cooperation, sociability, and self management overcame the common urban challenges posed by isolation and largely impersonal, single purpose contact with others. The settings were a cooperative food store, a cooperative bakery, community gardens, and a cooperatively owned low-cost housing project. Landman shows how the participants in these economically related activities are socially bound together in a web of relations considered unusual in large American cities, and how these exceptionally connected urban lives prove very satisfactory. |