Creating Community In The City
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...
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A study of four communally-oriented, volunteer-based organizations within a metropolitan setting demonstrates how people can restore a sense of community to their lives. Booknews An ethnographic study carried out at community gardens, a cooperatively owned housing development, a bakery, and a food market in the Washington, D.C. area, mostly in 1989-90. Landman (anthropology, American U.) details creating and maintaining communities within a larger urban setting. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
IllustrationsPreface1Creating Community: Realizing an American Ideal12Washington: Home to Four Million and Capital of the Nation113Lakeland Community Market: "Food for People, not for Profit"254The Community Bakers Mix theIr Dough with Social Philosophy515Maple Green's Tenants Create a Housing Cooperative and Call it a Village736Community Gardens: Pockets of Pastoral Pleasure, with Produce in Every Plot997Effects of Public Policies on the Gardens and the Cooperatives1218Lessons for the Larger Community137References Cited145Index149
\ BooknewsAn ethnographic study carried out at community gardens, a cooperatively owned housing development, a bakery, and a food market in the Washington, D.C. area, mostly in 1989-90. Landman (anthropology, American U.) details creating and maintaining communities within a larger urban setting. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
