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

by Ruth H. Landman

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897893166
• ISBN13: 9780897893169
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"