Villages in Cities
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Villages in Cities

Community Land Ownership and Cooperative Housing in Milton Parc and Beyond

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eBook - PDF

Villages in Cities

Community Land Ownership and Cooperative Housing in Milton Parc and Beyond

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. January 1971: MPCC Introductory Pamphlet
  5. How We Did It and How It Works Now
  6. Free Press
  7. Champlain Housing Trust
  8. 1970 Architecture Canada Newsmagazine Debate
  9. Montreal and Boston: Intertwined Destinies
  10. Spring-Summer 1971 BULLDOZER: Bulletin of the MPCC
  11. 1972 Community Press
  12. On Housing
  13. 1973 Arrests and Trial
  14. Housing Co-ops: Citizen Control or Social Service
  15. 1979 Letter from Lucia Kowaluk to Phyllis Lambert and Heritage Montreal
  16. Social Production of Habitat: The Emergence of a Paradigm Shift in the Making of Cities
  17. 1983 CMHC Press Release on the Inauguration of Milton-Parc
  18. An Interview with Dimitrios Roussopoulos
  19. Lucia Kowaluk in Conversation
  20. Appendix A: Financial and Technical Participation of CMHC in Milton-Parc
  21. Appendix B: Timeline of Milton-Parc: 1979-1987
  22. About the Authors