Villages in Cities: Community Land Ownership and Cooperative Housing in Milton Parc and Beyond - Softcover

Hawley, Joshua; Roussopoulos, Dimitri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551646870 ISBN 13: 9781551646879

Publisher: Black Rose Books, 2019

Synopsis

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.
 

About this title

About the Author:

Joshua Hawley is an MA candidate at Queen’s University in Canada and a community organizer in the housing justice movement. Dimitri Roussopoulos is a publisher, author, and activist at the forefront of urban social movements engaged in housing, ecology, and municipalism.
 

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Rose Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1551646870
• ISBN 13: 9781551646879
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240