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Contractual Communities in the Self-Organising City

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Geography Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2859-2

ISBN: 978-94-007-2858-5

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jan 4, 2012

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Types of Contractual Community

Brunetta, Grazia; Moroni, Stefano

Pages: 3 –13

[In this chapter we will examine two of the main forms of contractual community, namely the proprietary community, and the homeowners association. For each of the two we will consider the way they come into being, their principal features, and the way they are administered.]
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Differences and Similarities Between Contractual Communities, and Reasons for Their Success

Brunetta, Grazia; Moroni, Stefano

Pages: 15 –26

[In this chapter we will focus principally on the differences and similarities between contractual communities; special attention will be given to their similarities, as this will enable us to shed further light on the phenomenon of contractual communities, and lay the basis for the arguments and...
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Positive Aspects and Limits of Contractual Communities

Brunetta, Grazia; Moroni, Stefano

Pages: 29 –43

[In this chapter we will take the positive aspects and the limits of contractual communities into consideration. We have tried to do this from a “neutral” and “non-partisan” point of view without taking sides beforehand. Our considerations here have led us to maintain that many of the recurrent...
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The Space of Contractual Communities and the Re-Design of the State’s Role

Brunetta, Grazia; Moroni, Stefano

Pages: 45 –61

[We are used to thinking that private actors cannot easily take coordinated and harmonised actions. This is very often considered as a particularly binding justification for public intervention. In the light of the phenomena dealt with here, we perhaps should begin to think that private actors...
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The Proposal of Ebenezer Howard

Brunetta, Grazia; Moroni, Stefano

Pages: 65 –74

[In this chapter we will present Howard’s idea. The fulcrum of Howard’s proposal is a particular form of organisation of life in common: Garden City. Howard’s Garden City is original not so much for the presence and the function of the green areas as, above all, for the organisational model that...
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The Proposal of Spencer Heath

Brunetta, Grazia; Moroni, Stefano

Pages: 75 –82

[In this chapter we will present Spencer Heath’s ideas. The main points of Heath’s perspective are the following: the market and land ownership are crucial; the land must be managed in a mature market mainly through forms of proprietary communities; proprietary communities can take the place of...

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