How to Form a Block Club
Author | : Chicago (Ill.). Mayor's Office of Inquiry & Information |
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Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1994* |
Genre | : Citizens' associations |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Chicago (Ill.). Mayor's Office of Inquiry & Information |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1994* |
Genre | : Citizens' associations |
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Author | : West Area United Block Club Association |
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Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1983* |
Genre | : Citizens' associations |
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Author | : Amanda I. Seligman |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022638599X |
What do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you’re tired of the rowdy teenagers next door keeping you up all night? Is there a vacant lot on your block accumulating weeds, needles, and litter? For a century, Chicagoans have joined block clubs to address problems like these that make daily life in the city a nuisance. When neighbors work together in block clubs, playgrounds get built, local crime is monitored, streets are cleaned up, and every summer is marked by the festivities of day-long block parties. In Chicago’s Block Clubs, Amanda I. Seligman uncovers the history of the block club in Chicago—from its origins in the Urban League in the early 1900s through to the Chicago Police Department’s twenty-first-century community policing program. Recognizing that many neighborhood problems are too big for one resident to handle—but too small for the city to keep up with—city residents have for more than a century created clubs to establish and maintain their neighborhood’s particular social dynamics, quality of life, and appearance. Omnipresent yet evanescent, block clubs are sometimes the major outlets for community organizing in the city—especially in neighborhoods otherwise lacking in political strength and clout. Drawing on the stories of hundreds of these groups from across the city, Seligman vividly illustrates what neighbors can—and cannot—accomplish when they work together.
Author | : Amanda I. Seligman |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2016-09-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 022638585X |
Whether focused on flower gardens, street crime, or aesthetic conformity, urban block clubs are unusual quasi-institutions that can establish or maintain a neighborhood s appearance, social dynamics, and quality of life. But what is a block club? And how does it function? Is it a definable institution, with codifiable practices and expectations, or is it merely an assemblage of like-minded citizens who happen to live near one another? What makes one such group effective and long-lasting, while most evaporate after a few years of communal activity? These are some of the questions that Amanda Seligman addresses in her deeply researched study."
Author | : Allegheny Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods-Housing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1961 |
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Author | : Gene Baten |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Community development |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Community development |
ISBN | : |
Guidelines for forming a block club (neighborhood advocacy organization) and conducting meetings in the Union Miles neighborhood of Cleveland Ohio.
Author | : Hamline Midway Coalition (Saint Paul, Minn.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Community organization |
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Author | : United States. National Commission on Neighborhoods |
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Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Community development |
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Author | : United States. National Commission on Neighborhoods |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1380 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Community development, Urban |
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