Streetcities - Rehousing the Homeless

"A wonderful example of contemporary anthropology." - Irene Glasser, Community Renewal Team (CRT), Hartford, Connecticut

List of contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note to the Reader: Ethical Research in a Shelter

Introduction

Chapter 1: Cities within a City

Chapter 2: Living Homeless: Jimmy's Story

Chapter 3: Tom's Story

Chapter 4: Sarah's Story

Chapter 5: Chronically Homeless in Canada

Chapter 6: StreetCity: The Vision

Chapter 7: Town Council

Chapter 8: StreetCity Too: Strachan House

Chapter 9: Shelter, Housing, House, and Home

Chapter 10: Lessons from StreetCity and Strachan House

Epilogue

Timeline

Press Coverage on StreetCity and Strachan House (selected)

References

Index

 

About the author

Rae Bridgman is assistant professor in the Department of City Planning in the Faculty of Architecture and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba. She is the co-author of Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness (1999).

Summary

"A wonderful example of contemporary anthropology." - Irene Glasser, Community Renewal Team (CRT), Hartford, Connecticut

Product details

• Authors: Rae Bridgman
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2005
• EAN: 9781551115337
• ISBN: 978-1-55111-533-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 299 g
• Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom; Broadview Ethnographies & Case; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnogra
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories