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"The American dream of a single-family home on its own lot remains strong, but a different dream of living and prospering in a major city is beginning to take hold. After decades of abandonment by the middle class, a detectable wave of people is moving into urban downtown areas. The Intown Living phenomenon is generally powered by people under the age of 40 who are seeking more stimulation than that of a typical subdivision lifestyle. This book encourages...
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"Richard O. Davies takes the reader through two hundred years of American history as reflected in the small Ohio farming village of Camden. Davies describes the development of the relatively self-sufficient community that emerged from the Ohio land rush of the early nineteenth century, a community that reached its apex during the 1920s and then entered into a period of slow decline caused by forces beyond its control. He details the roles of land...
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Monographic collection of case studies and essays on experiments in cooperatives and collective human settlements in the USA during the 1960s and 1970s - discusses free health services and educational institutions, food cooperatives, urban area communes, etc. As well as issues relating to equal opportunity, participatory organizations and alternative social services. References.
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Monograph comprising a social and cultural anthropologycal field study of seven ijebu yoruba urban area migrant families in ibadan, Nigeria - outlines research method, covers historical aspects of yoruba culture, and details case studies incl. Economic conditions, family living conditions, role of women, social class, leisure, etc., stressing value systems and attitudes to internal migration and social change. Bibliography pp. 202 to 208, maps, photographs...
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