Main entry:

Dahir, James, 1904-

Title & Author:

Communities for better living; citizen achievement in organization, design and development.

Edition:

[1st ed.].

Publication:

New York, Harper [1950]

Description:

xiv, 321 pages illustrations, plans 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-311).
INTROD. -- The triumph of unplanned urbanism -- From unplanned city to unplanned country ; Effects on the city ; Effects on the country -- ORGANIZING THE COMMUNITY FOR STUDY AND ACTION -- Everyone's stake in the community -- The community council : general considerations -- The community council : special considerations ; Getting and keeping good leaders ; Fitting community organization to community type ; Studying the local situation ; Focusing on problems ; Setting up a program of priorities -- HOW AMERICAN COMMUNITIES ARE BEING DEVELOPED TODAY : IN URBAN AREAS -- Attacking chaos in the central cities ; For a better Baltimore ; Louisville Area Development Association ; The Omaha improvement plan ; Citizen participation : the Philadelphia story ; Chicago : predicament and plans ; Stuyvesant Town ; A settlement house and its neighbourhood ; Kansas City's government-sponsored community councils ; Michael Reese Hospital replans its environment ; The Woodlawn plan : a conservation project ; Morningside Heights Incorporated ; Conservation in the Borough of Queens ; The Chicago area project -- Planning suburban development ; Refugees in the suburbs ; Replanning the older suburbs ; Large-scale building on raw land ; An insurance company builds a rental community ; Suburban shopping centers ; A suburban cooperative community ; Vista Hermosa, Panama City, Canal zone ; Springfield, Virginia -- Satellite cities : Successor to suburbia ; Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City movement ; The future of the Garden City idea ; Park Forest, Illinois ; Deep River, Ontario -- HOW AMERICAN COMMUNITIES ARE BEING DEVELOPED TODAY : IN RURAL AREAS -- Ohio Farm Bureau Advisory Councils -- Farmers Union Hospital Association, Elk City, Oklahoma -- The county agricultural agent as community organizer -- Community improvement through the rural public school -- Community-building in a central school district in New York State -- Economic support for the small community -- Central Illinois community-betterment program -- Community organization through a state welfare department -- The Arkansas plan -- The committee for Kentucky -- ENCOURAGEMENT FROM THE PAST -- Kingsport, Tennessee : a town built for industry -- Riverside, Illinois, and Garden City, Long Island -- Roland Park, Maryland -- Country Club District, Kansas City -- Forest Hills Gardens, Long Island -- Sunnyside and Radburn -- Baldwin Hills Village, Los Angeles -- Chatham Village, Pittsburgh -- Towns build by government ; Norris, Tennessee ; Greenbelt, Maryland ; Greendale, Wisconsin -- NEW LOCAL INSTITUTIONS AND PATTERNS OF LIFE -- The neighbourhood or residential unit -- The social consequences of neighbourhood planning -- The community center -- Specialized community centers ; The settlement house ; The center in housing projects -- Centers serving special age groups -- Where to begin ; Community forests ; A community orchestra ; Organizing a community theatre ; Socio-Drama ; Forums ; community radio council ; The nontheatrical film ; The community museum -- The Peckham experiment -- HELP FOR THE JOB THAT LIES AHEAD -- Economic possibilities -- what is government for? -- Public schools and community development -- How social scientists can help
Dust jacket.

Summary:

The author calls attention to the social consequences of physical environments, provides a survey of community action programs in urban and rural areas, and examines funding options for local development.

Subject:

City planning.
Community organization.
Organisation communautaire.
community organizations.
Stadt
Regional planning
USA

Holdings:

Location: Library main 135699
Call No.: ID NA9030.D3; ID:97-B810
Status: Available