Villages in cities : community land ownership and cooperative housing in Milton Parc and beyond / Joshua Hawley, Dimitri Roussopoulos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawley, Joshua, 1988- author.

Roussopoulos, Dimitrios I., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing--Canada--Data processing.

Housing.

Land trusts.

Montréal (Québec)--History.

Montréal (Québec).

Milton-Parc (Montréal, Québec)--History.

Milton-Parc (Montréal, Québec).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal : Black Rose Books, [2019]

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.

Contents:

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781551646893

1551646897

OCLC:

1196191475