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Conflicts over Use Values in an Urban Canadian Housing Cooperative
Author(s) -
Cooper Matthew,
Rodman Margaret
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/city.1990.4.1.44
Subject(s) - landscaping , value (mathematics) , space (punctuation) , public housing , cultural values , social conflict , sociology , business , economic growth , political science , economics , law , social science , philosophy , botany , machine learning , politics , computer science , biology , linguistics
CONFLICT BETWEEN THE EXCHANGE and use values of land often is argued to be the chief determinant of the social construction of urban space. When exchange value considerations are not an issue, however, conflicts over use values help reveal the importance of social, cultural, and personal dimensions. Conflicts over landscaping and budget planning in a nonprofit Canadian housing cooperative show the interaction of such factors with people's structural positions in the housing market. People use housing, including conflict over housing, to try to articulate certain social, cultural, and individual needs, [housing, cooperatives, urban space, use values, conflict]