Neighborhood Power - The New Localism

196 Pages·022.235 MB·English

by  David Morris, Karl Hess

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NEIGHBORHOOD POWER

Neighborhood Power
The New Localism
David Morris and Karl Hess
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Beacon Press Boston
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Copyright© 1975 byThe Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C.
Beacon Press books are published under the auspices
ofthe Unitarian UniversalistAssociation
Published simultaneously inhardcover andpaperbackeditions
Simultaneous publication inCanada by Saunders ofToronto, Ltd.
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Printed in the United States ofAmerica
98765432
Library ofCongress Catalogingin Publication Data
Morris, DavidJ
Neighborhood power.
Bibliography: pp. 173-177
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1. Cities and towns Planning United States.
2. Neighborhood. I. Hess, Karl, 1923- joint
author. II. Title.
HT167.M67 309.2'62'o973 74-16663
ISBN 0-8070-0874-5
ISBN 0-8070-0875-3 (pbk.)
For our neighbors

Acknowledgments
We would like to thank, above all, our co-workers and neighbors
at Community Technology and the Institute for Local Self-Reli-
ance for generating many ofthe ideas, and not a little ofthe data,
that have gone into this book. Ifit weren't for the residents ofthe
Adams Morgan community growing vegetables on their roofs,
mapping out the neighborhood for urban food production, setting
up cooperative businesses, talking about small-scale technology,
building solar cookers, starting neighborhood assemblies, hosting
block parties, having fun, we might never have believed in the
practicability ofneighborhood power.
Thanks to Therese Hess for doing a superbjob ofediting a
messy manuscript, and to Mary Jo Sutherland, for doing an
equally superbjob ofurging it on to completion as the beautiful
summer months beckoned.
A special thanks to Gil Friend and Neil Seldman. Many
long hours of dialogue with them helped to refine vague and
crude ideas.
Needless to say, the authors alone are responsible for the
statements in this book. It's up to other neighborhoods and small
cities around the country to add their own chapters to the
growing literature of local efforts at self-reliance and independ-
ence.