Description
Book SynopsisNeighbourhood Houses documents how the neighbourhood house model, a century-old type of community organization, can help overcome isolation in urban neighbourhoods by creating welcoming places.
Trade ReviewYan and Lauer have assembled a set of passionate essays that dig deep into opportunities for community building offered by the neighbourhood house movement. * Plan Canada *
The use of multiple authors adds to the authenticity of the work and creates a readable, interesting case study that could certainly be applied to other municipalities in British Columbia and beyond.
-- Pamela Show; Vancouver Island University * BC Studies *
Yan and Lauer’s
Neighbourhood Houses: Building Community in Vancouver provides an important collection of essays reminding us that cities are made up of people with complex needs and desires, but who want to connect and support each other when given an opportunity to feel safe to do so. -- Jennifer Chutter * The British Columbia Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Sean Lauer and Miu Chung Yan
1 History of Vancouver Neighbourhood Houses and Beyond / Sean Lauer, Miu Chung Yan, and Eleanor Stebner
2 The Eyes and Ears of the Community: Engaging Citizens and Community Advocacy / Oliver Schmidtke
3 Mechanism of Connection: Accessibility and Beyond / Miu Chung Yan
4 Social Infrastructure for Building Community / Sean Lauer
5 Trajectories of Life and Belonging in the Neighbourhood Houses of Metro Vancouver / Pilar Riaño-Alcalá and Erika Ono
6 From Immigrant to Citizen: Life Stories of Transformation / Jenny Francis
7 Limitations and Potentials of Neighbourhood House in Community-Building / Miu Chung Yan and Sean Lauer
Appendix 1: Technical Notes
Appendix 2: Neighbourhood Houses in Metro Vancouver
Contributors; Index
