Author: Harold David BuffaPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Cooperative Community Swimming Pools
Author: Harold David BuffaCooperation, Community, and Co-Ops in a Global Era
Author: Carl RatnerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461458250
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Globalization pressures have made cooperation on a global scale both necessary and possible. But cooperation is not easy in a world dominated by individual, cultural, and national selfish interests. The opposition to cooperation means that cooperation is not natural, but must be instituted through an intellectual and social struggle against countervailing forces. This book discusses issues that are necessary to describe the nature of cooperation and how it can be promoted as a social and ethical ideal amidst a sea of competing interests. Dr. Ratner uses the framework of cooperativism, that is the system of social institutions, social philosophy, cultural psychology and politics that promotes cooperation, as a starting point. Elements of cooperativism are derived from a rigorous analysis of various sources, including the needs of tendencies of human culture and human psychology.
Building a Co-operative Community in Public Housing
Author: Jorge SousaPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442666382
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Public housing projects were the original form of government supported housing for low-income residents. Over the last fifty years many projects have struggled with high crime rates and numerous social problems. One solution proposed to address these ongoing issues is granting residents decision-making power within their community by converting into a co-operative. Building a Co-operative Community in Public Housing follows the journey of a Toronto public housing complex as it was converted into a resident-operated co-operative, a first in Canada. Jorge Sousa traces the story of Alexandra Park, which became the Atkinson Housing Co-operative in 2003 after a ten-year conversion process. Sousa, who himself was raised in the community, provides an empirical account of the contributing factors that influenced its decision to pursue community-based control, as well as the experiences of both residents and government officials engaged in this process. Finally, Building a Co-operative Community in Public Housing offers a framework for other communities facing similar circumstances who want to learn how to go about undertaking this process. All royalties from this book will be contributed to the Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto Charitable Fund.
Swimming Pools, Playgrounds, and Parks
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Health, Education, and RecreationPublisher:
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Category : Parks
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Swimming Pools, Playgrounds, and Parks
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of ColumbiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Planning School-community Swimming Pools
Author: California. Bureau of Health Education, Physical Education, and RecreationPublisher:
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Category : Swimming pools
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Rural Cooperatives
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Resident-Owned Community Guide for Florida Cooperatives
Author: Ashley E. GaultPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1561648892
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A helpful and practical tool for leaders of residential cooperatives in Florida. It is the only complete guide to their operations and management, and it gives special attention to the unique components of mobile home cooperatives.
Freedomland
Author: Annemarie H. SammartinoPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150171645X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In Freedomland, Annemarie H. Sammartino tells Co-op City's story from the perspectives of those who built it and of the ordinary people who made their homes in this monument to imperfect liberal ideals of economic and social justice. Located on the grounds of the former Freedomland amusement park on the northeastern edge of the Bronx, Co-op City's 35 towers and 236 townhouses have been home to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and is an icon visible to all traveling on the east coast corridor. In 1965, Co-op City was planned as the largest middle-class housing development in the United States. It was intended as a solution to the problem of affordable housing in America's largest city. While Co-op City first appeared to be a huge success story for integrated, middle-class housing, tensions would lead its residents to organize the largest rent strike in American history. In 1975, a coalition of shareholders took on New York State and, against all odds, secured resident control. Much to the dismay of many denizens of the complex, even this achievement did not halt either rising costs or white flight. Nevertheless, after the challenges of the 1970s and 1980s, the cooperative achieved a hard-won stability as the twentieth century came to a close. Freedomland chronicles the tumultuous first quarter century of Co-op City's existence. Sammartino's narrative connects planning, economic, and political history and the history of race in America. The result is a new perspective on twentieth-century New York City.
Eco-Social Transformation and Community-Based Economy
Author: Susanne ElsenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351119842
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Worldwide societal problems such as mass unemployment, growing social disparities, public and private poverty, social exclusion, environmental destruction and the evidence of climate change are increasing and becoming ever more visible. They require urgent and sustainable long-term solutions. Eco-Social Transformation and Community-Based Economy provides a transdisciplinary conception of community based socially productive approaches to eco-social transformation and sustainability. It introduces interdisciplinary discourses, basic theoretical concepts, participatory and community-based research, development strategies and practical prospects and considers them in the context of both eco-social transformation and eco-social work, especially with disadvantaged groups. With case studies that demonstrate the creative power of local embeddedness, diversity and cooperation, this book presents integrative local approaches as convincing examples of possible ways forward. It will be of interest to all scholars, students and activists working in community development, social development, social work and human geography.