Twin Rivers, Study of a Planned Community
Author | : Suzanne Infeld Keller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Suzanne Infeld Keller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : |
Author | : East Windsor (N.J. : Township). Planning Board |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : |
Documents relating to the development of Twin Rivers, a planned community in East Windsor Township, Mercer County, N.J., including correspondence, minutes, agendas, marketing study, site plans, home finders directory, brochures, price lists, architectural and engineering drawings, records of Twin Rivers Community Trust, fire department maps, clippings, newsletters, and other materials; together with promotional literature featuring housing designs and floor plans.
Author | : Matthew Lasner |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2023-04-04 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 030026934X |
The first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of condominium and cooperative housing in twentieth-century America. Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family house. As the American dream evolves, precipitated by rising real estate prices and a renewed interest in urban living, many predict that condos will become the predominant form of housing in the twenty-first century. In this unprecedented study, Matthew Gordon Lasner explores the history of co-owned multifamily housing in the United States, from New York City’s first co-op, in 1881, to contemporary condominium and townhouse complexes coast to coast. Lasner explains the complicated social, economic, and political factors that have increased demand for this way of living, situating the trend within the larger housing market and broad shifts in residential architecture and family life. He contrasts the prevalence and popularity of condos, townhouses, and other privately governed communities with their ambiguous economic, legal, and social standing, as well as their striking absence from urban and architectural history.
Author | : John Zeisel |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1984-05-25 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780521319713 |
Illustrating his points with many references to actual projects, John Zeisel explains, in non-technical language, the integration of social science research and design. The book provides a provocative text for students in all the fields related to environm
Author | : National Science Foundation (U.S.). Directorate of Applied Science and Research Applications |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Research |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gerard Delanty |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2018-03-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351656058 |
The increasing atomization of modern society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and belonging in an increasingly insecure world. Far from disappearing, community has been revived by transnationalism and by new kinds of individualism. Gerard Delanty begins this stimulating critical introduction to the concept with an analysis of the origins of the idea of community in Western utopian thought, and as a theme in classical sociology and anthropology. He goes on to chart the resurgence of the idea within communitarian thought and postmodern philosophies, the complications and critiques of multiculturalism, and new manifestations of community within a society where changing modes of communication produce both fragmentation and possibilities of new social bonds. Contemporary community, he argues, is essentially a communication community based on belonging and sharing, and can be a powerful voice of political opposition. The communities of today are less spatially bounded than those of the past, but they cannot dispense with the need for a sense of belonging. The communicative ties and cultural structures of contemporary societies have opened up numerous possibilities for belonging based on religion, nationalism, ethnicity, lifestyle and gender.
Author | : |
Publisher | : princeton alumni weekly |
Total Pages | : 988 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Luc Pauwels |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2023-07-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1804556327 |
Presented over two volumes, Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology A and B explore the use and potential of visual materials and methodologies that expand the level of analysis and ways of seeing in urban sociology.
Author | : Suzanne Keller |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0691186669 |
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? 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.
Author | : Environmental Research and Development Foundation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Housing |
ISBN | : |