1st Edition

Building Communities (Routledge Revivals) The Co-operative Way

By Johnston Birchall Copyright 1988
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

Building Communities: The Co-Operative Way , first published in 1988, sets the flourishing of housing co-operatives throughout the 1980s in a theoretical and historical framework that suggests that tenant control is the best way out of the still-problematic issue of housing policy. Before the First World War, co-operative housing was poised to become a potent force in government policy, but... Read more

Foreword by Michael Young;  Acknowledgments;  Introduction  1. Housing Needs and Co-Operative Solutions  2. Human Nature and Co-Operative Values  3. Democracy, The State and Co-Operative Welfare  4. Co-Operative Housing in Britain: The Early Stages  5. Co-Operative Housing in Britain: The Later Stages  6. Co-Operation in Practice: Six Case Histories  7. A Framework for Evaluation;  Conclusion: A Co-Operative View of Housing Policy in Britain; Notes;  Select Bibliography;  Index

Biography

Johnston Birchall