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StreetCities - Rae Bridgman

StreetCities

Rehousing the Homeless

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Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2005
Broadview Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-55111-533-7 (ISBN)
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"A wonderful example of contemporary anthropology." - Irene Glasser, Community Renewal Team (CRT), Hartford, Connecticut
StreetCities charts the development of an alternative communal housing model for chronically homeless men and women in downtown Toronto. In her recounting of the stories and narratives of residents and staff at the original "StreetCity" and the second generation "Strachan House," Bridgman explores how living on the street (something often viewed as negative) has the potential to become a powerful emblem of community growth, tolerance, and caring. The histories of these two supportive housing projects are embedded within larger currents of governmental responses to homelessness in Canada, and the incorporation of photographs, interview narratives, and handwritten fieldnotes brings Bridgman's ethnographic research to life. StreetCities also includes a discussion of the architectural design and operation of the two housing projects, and the eventual closing of the original "StreetCity." StreetCities is written for those who want to learn more about the work being done to help chronically homeless women and men.
The book will be useful for researchers, policy-makers, service-providers, teachers, students, and activists working in the fields of homelessness and housing studies, social work, urban and applied anthropology, sociology, urban studies, and qualitative research methods.

Rae Bridgman is assistant professor in the Department of City Planning in the Faculty of Architecture and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba. She is the co-author of Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness (1999).

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note to the Reader: Ethical Research in a Shelter Introduction Chapter 1: Cities within a City Chapter 2: Living Homeless: Jimmy's Story Chapter 3: Tom's Story Chapter 4: Sarah's Story Chapter 5: Chronically Homeless in Canada Chapter 6: StreetCity: The Vision Chapter 7: Town Council Chapter 8: StreetCity Too: Strachan House Chapter 9: Shelter, Housing, House, and Home Chapter 10: Lessons from StreetCity and Strachan House Epilogue Timeline Press Coverage on StreetCity and Strachan House (selected) References Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.12.2005
Reihe/Serie Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
Verlagsort Peterborough
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 300 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Allgemeines Verwaltungsrecht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Baurecht (privat)
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Besonderes Strafrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-55111-533-6 / 1551115336
ISBN-13 978-1-55111-533-7 / 9781551115337
Zustand Neuware
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