Paradise from a developer. A cultural image of a housing cooperative in new housing estates Cover Image

Raj od dewelopera. Kulturowy obraz wspólnot mieszkaniowych na nowych osiedlach
Paradise from a developer. A cultural image of a housing cooperative in new housing estates

Author(s): Magdalena Szczepańska
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: enclosed housing estate; housing cooperative; social control

Summary/Abstract: The advertisements of new housing estates convince us of a new quality of the flat environment. The aim of the text is to present a cultural image of new housing estates of blocks of flats built after 2000. A dominant organizational form are housing cooperatives there. They were described through the prism of the organizational culture. The analysis of the content of opinions on the housing cooperative Internet fora was made, namely the analysis of the topics important for inhabitants, methods of their joint actions, norms binding in these communities and ways of taking social control. The studies included 30 opinions from the housing cooperative Internet fora from Gdańsk, Poznań, Warsaw, Wrocław and Łódź.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 108-117
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish