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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aKeller, Suzanne
_eautore
245 1 0 _aCommunity :
_bPursuing the Dream, Living the Reality /
_cSuzanne Keller.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2003
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aPrinceton Studies in Cultural Sociology ;
_v4
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tTABLES --
_tPREFACE --
_tPart I. Community as Image and Ideal --
_t1. Community: The Passionate Quest --
_t2. Historic Models Of Community --
_t3. Key Theories And Concepts --
_tPart II. A Community Is Launched --
_tTwin Rivers Time Line 1970 - 2000 --
_t4. Twin Rivers: The First Planned Unit Development In New Jersey --
_t5. The Residents Appraise Their Environs --
_t6. Securing The Vox Populi: The Struggle For Self-Government --
_tPart II. A Community Is Launched --
_t7. Joiners And Organizers: Community Participation --
_t8. Sociability In A New Community --
_tPart II. A Community Is Launched --
_t9. Space, Place, And Design --
_t10. Private And Public: Whose Rights, Whose Responsibilities? --
_t11. Go Fight City Hall: The First Lawsuit --
_t12. Leaders As Lightning Rods --
_t13. Unity And Division, Conflict And Consensus --
_tSummary Of Key Findings --
_tPart III. Old Imperatives, New Directions --
_t14. The Continuing Salience Of The Local Community --
_t15. Concluding Reflections --
_tEpilogue. Is There Community In Cyberspace? --
_tAppendix. Overview Of Surveys, 1975-1999 --
_tBibliography --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThis 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? Inspired by the legacy of Plato, Rousseau, de Tocqueville, and Tönnies, Keller traces the difficult birth and the rich unfolding of Twin Rivers from a former potato field into a vibrant contemporary community. Most community studies remain at a highly descriptive level. This book has both broader and deeper aims, endeavoring to develop principles of the common life as we enter the age of cyberspace. Keller reveals the community of Twin Rivers through a multidimensional social microscope, having monitored the community from the day it opened by participant observation, attitude surveys, the study of collective records, and nearly 1,000 in-depth interviews with homeowners. She offers fascinating insight into how residents maintain privacy, relate to neighbors, cope with social conflict, and develop ideas about the common good. She shows that Twin Rivers residents remain hopeful about the possibility of community despite variable success in achieving their desires. Indeed, she argues that the hard-won experience, more than the utopian ideal, is the true measure of community. Keller concludes that, despite the homogenizing effects of mass communication and globalization, local communities will continue to proliferate in the foreseeable future--due to changing lifestyles and the continuing quest for roots. This important and engaging book will be appreciated by social scientists, architects, physical planners, developers and lenders, and community leaders as well as by the general reader interested in creating a bridge between individualism and community.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aCommunities.
650 0 _aCommunity life
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aCommunity life
_zNew Jersey
_vCase studies.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
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