Donald R. Stabile

Community Associations (eBook, PDF)

The Emergence and Acceptance of a Quiet Innovation in Housing

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Throughout history human beings have formed communities spontaneously with residences constructed haphazardly. Today a new type of community is emerging-one planned from the start regarding housing location, style, and governance. These Community Associations (CAs) have increased in number from 500 in 1960 to 205,000 in 1998. This book explores the issues surrounding this housing innovation and provides a history of community associations and their membership organization, the Community Associations Institute (CAI). The book explores the process of trial and error in the design of CAs and how the CAI was set up to help them work. It opens with a consideration of the economics of land, housing, and community associations; explores the social, intellectual, legal background for CAs; and surveys their development in the United States. After considering the FHA's role, the book focuses on the development of the CAI .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313030697
• Artikelnr.: 37823971

Autorenporträt

DONALD R. STABILE is Professor of Economics at St. Mary's College of Maryland and Associate Editor of Business Library Review. His recent books include Work and Welfare: The Social Costs of Labor in the History of Economic Thought (Greenwood, 1996) and The Public Debt of the United States: An Historical Perspective (Praeger, 1991).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Quiet Innovation in Housing The Economics of Land, Housing
and CAs Common Property: A Social and Intellectual Background The
Development of CAs in the United States Government, Business, and Housing:
Early Years of Cooperation The Promotion of CAs: A Government-Business
Collaboration The Community Associations Institute: Formation and Growth
The Community Associations Institute: A Period of Change The CAI and the
Management of CAs The CAI and Community Building in CAs A Perspective on
CAs and the CAI Conclusion: A Revolution in Housing Selected Bibliography
Index