Community : : Pursuing the Dream, Living the Reality / / Suzanne Keller.
This book tells the story of how a human community comes to be and how aspirations for the good life confront the dilemmas and detours of real life. Suzanne Keller combines penetrating analysis of classic ideas about community with a remarkable and unprecedented thirty-year case study of one of the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- TABLES
- PREFACE
- Part I. Community as Image and Ideal
- 1. Community: The Passionate Quest
- 2. Historic Models Of Community
- 3. Key Theories And Concepts
- Part II. A Community Is Launched
- Twin Rivers Time Line 1970 - 2000
- 4. Twin Rivers: The First Planned Unit Development In New Jersey
- 5. The Residents Appraise Their Environs
- 6. Securing The Vox Populi: The Struggle For Self-Government
- Part II. A Community Is Launched
- 7. Joiners And Organizers: Community Participation
- 8. Sociability In A New Community
- Part II. A Community Is Launched
- 9. Space, Place, And Design
- 10. Private And Public: Whose Rights, Whose Responsibilities?
- 11. Go Fight City Hall: The First Lawsuit
- 12. Leaders As Lightning Rods
- 13. Unity And Division, Conflict And Consensus
- Summary Of Key Findings
- Part III. Old Imperatives, New Directions
- 14. The Continuing Salience Of The Local Community
- 15. Concluding Reflections
- Epilogue. Is There Community In Cyberspace?
- Appendix. Overview Of Surveys, 1975-1999
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index