Garage sales make good neighboors: Building community through neighborhood sales

Human Organization

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 181-191

  Herrmann, Gretchen M ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Community solidarity; Garage sales; Social capital; U.S. neighborhoods

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; SUBURBAN AREA;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745506956     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: 00187259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.65.2.469lbwp4g4hnddbb     Document Type: Article

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