Book
Un milagro de Loisaida: alternative technology and grassroots efforts for neighborhood reconstruction on New York's Lower East Side
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1992 • Pages:
By: Chodorkoff, Daniel Elliot.
Abstract
This dissertation examines the Puerto Rican community of Loisaida, Manhattan's Lower East Side. The focus of the work is on three grass roots organizations and their efforts at neighborhood reconstruction using alternative technologies (i.e., technologies based on utilizing renewable energy sources), and de-centralist forms of community organization (p. v). Two of these organizations are discussed briefly in the text -- the 11th Street Movement, and C.U.A.N.D.O (Cultural Understanding and Neighborhood Development Organization), but the major emphasis is on Charas, an environmental and cultural group involved in neighborhood education and reconstruction. The author analyzes this group as a component of a social movement, describing its organizational structure, ideological outlook, and its economic forms and programs within the context of the emerging New York Puerto Rican culture of Loisaida. The final section of this study presents a general theoretical discussion of the utopian tradition and how it relates to the environmental movements on the Lower East Side.
- Subjects
- Information sources listed in other works
- Research methods
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- History
- Economic planning and development
- Cultural identity and pride
- Environmental quality
- Settlement patterns
- Housing
- Commercial facilities
- Parks
- Urban and rural life
- Sodalities
- Community structure
- Poverty
- Ethnosociology
- Adolescent activities
- culture
- Puerto Ricans (Mainland)
- HRAF PubDate
- 2002
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ;
- Field Date
- 1977-1979 (p. 10)
- Coverage Date
- ca. 1970-1980
- Coverage Place
- Lower East Side, Manhattan; New York, N.Y., United States
- Notes
- [by] Daniel Elliot Chodorkoff
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- New School for Social Research, 1980
- UM AAC8028991
- The functional aspects of the environmental movements described here have been indexed for Environmental Quality (318), with Sodalities (575) added for discussions of organizational structure.Data on these movements as a youth oriented activity were indexed for Adolescent Activities (883).
- Bibliography: p. 251-259
- LCSH
- Puerto Ricans--New York (N.Y.)