Community: Pursuing the Dream, Living the Reality - Couverture rigide

Keller, Suzanne

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691095647 ISBN 13 : 9780691095646

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2003

Synopsis

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 first "planned unit developments" in America and the first in New Jersey. Twin Rivers, this pioneering venture, featured townhouses and shared spaces for children's play and adult work and play in a society that stresses individual over collective goals and private over public concerns. Hence the timeless questions asked over millennia: How does an aggregate of strangers create an identity of place, shared goals, viable institutions, and a spirit of mutuality and reciprocity? What obstacles stand in the way and how are these overcome? And how does design generate (or deter) community spirit?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Suzanne Keller is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Princeton University. She was the first woman in the history of Princeton to receive tenure. Her many writings include "The Urban Neighborhood" and "Beyond the Ruling Class" (both Random House), the pioneering textbook "Sociology" (McGraw-Hill), and hundreds of articles on a wide range of subjects.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691095647
• ISBN 13: 9780691095646
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
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