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Creating Community in the City Cooperatives and Community Gardens in Washington, D.C.

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Ruth H. Landman

Book Code: H316

ISBN: 0-89789-316-6

ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-316-9

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168 pages, maps, photographs, tables

Bergin & Garvey

Publication: 6/30/1993

List Price: $107.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

Availability: Out of stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contemporary Urban Studies

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.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Creating Community: Realizing an American Ideal
Washington: Home to Four Million and Capital of the Nation
Lakeland Community Market: "Food for People, not for Profit"
The Community Bakers Mix their Dough with Social Philosophy
Maple Green's Tenants Create a Housing Cooperative and Call it a Village
Community Gardens: Pockets of Pastoral Pleasure, with Produce in every Plot
Effects of Public Policies on the Gardens and the Cooperatives
Lessons for the Larger Community
References Cited
Index

LC Card Number: 92-42899

LCC Class: HD7287

Dewey Class: 334


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