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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- January 1971: MPCC Introductory Pamphlet -- How We Did It and How It Works Now -- Free Press -- Champlain Housing Trust -- 1970 Architecture Canada Newsmagazine Debate -- Montreal and Boston: Intertwined Destinies -- Spring-Summer 1971 BULLDOZER: Bulletin of the MPCC -- 1972 Community Press -- On Housing -- 1973 Arrests and Trial -- Housing Co-ops: Citizen Control or Social Service -- 1979 Letter from Lucia Kowaluk to Phyllis Lambert and Heritage Montreal |
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Social Production of Habitat: The Emergence of a Paradigm Shift in the Making of Cities -- 1983 CMHC Press Release on the Inauguration of Milton-Parc -- An Interview with Dimitrios Roussopoulos -- Lucia Kowaluk in Conversation -- Appendix A: Financial and Technical Participation of CMHC in Milton-Parc -- Appendix B: Timeline of Milton-Parc: 1979-1987 -- About the Authors |
| 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 |
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Housing -- Canada -- Case studies
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Housing, Cooperative -- Canada -- Case studies
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Housing, Cooperative -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal
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Land trusts -- Canada -- Case studies
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Right to housing -- Canada -- Case studies
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Housing -- United States -- Case studies
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Housing, Cooperative -- United States -- Case studies
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Land tenure -- United States -- Case studies
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Right to housing -- United States -- Case studies
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Housing
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Housing, Cooperative
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Land tenure
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Land trusts
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Right to housing
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Montréal (Québec) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95002319
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Milton-Parc (Montréal, Québec) -- History
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Canada
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Québec -- Montréal
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United States
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Case studies
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Roussopoulos, Dimitri, author
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| ISBN |
9781551646893 |
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1551646897 |
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