Villages in cities : community land ownership, cooperative housing, and the Milton Parc story / Joshua Hawley, Dimitrios Roussopoulos, editors.

Title & Author:

Villages in cities : community land ownership, cooperative housing, and the Milton Parc story / Joshua Hawley, Dimitrios Roussopoulos, editors.

Publication:

Montreal : Black Rose Books, [2019]

Description:

163 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

"In Montreal in 1968, speculators announced their 'urban renewal' plan to demolish six blocks of the downtown heritage neighborhood of Milton Parc in order to build enormous high-rise condos, hotels, office buildings, and shopping malls. The local community viewed this as a declaration of war. What followed was a remarkable struggle that not only saved the heritage architecture from destruction but also protected local residents from gentrification through the creation of the largest nonprofit cooperative housing project on an urban community land trust in North America. And Milton Parc is not unique. Villages in Cities takes us across North America--to New York, Boston, Burlington, Oakland, Jackson, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, and Vancouver--to show concrete examples of citizens taking back the land and claiming their right to secure housing. The book draws connections among these projects, examines their underlying causes, and connects them with a holistic 'Right to the City' movement that is emerging internationally."-- Provided by publisher

ISBN:

9781551646886 (hardcover)
1551646889 (hardcover)
9781551646879 (paperback)
1551646870 (paperback)

Subject:

Housing Canada Case studies.
Housing, Cooperative Canada Case studies.
Housing, Cooperative Québec (Province) Montréal.
Land trusts Canada Case studies.
Right to housing Canada Case studies.
Housing United States Case studies.
Housing, Cooperative United States Case studies.
Land tenure United States Case studies.
Right to housing United States Case studies.
Logement coopératif Canada Études de cas.
Logement coopératif Québec (Province) Montréal.
Droit au logement Canada Études de cas.
Logement coopératif États-Unis Études de cas.
Droit au logement États-Unis Études de cas.
Housing.
Housing, Cooperative.
Land tenure.
Land trusts.
Right to housing.
Montréal (Québec) History.
Milton-Parc (Montréal, Québec) History.
United States.
Québec Montréal.
Canada.

Form/genre:

History.
Case studies.
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Hawley, Joshua, 1988- editor.
Roussopoulos, Dimitrios I., editor.
Centre canadien d'architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307461
Call No.: BIB 249690
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

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