So pervasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences, but actually our sense of possibilities.[Ivan Illich]...For man has closed himself up till he sees all things through the chinks of his cabin... [William Blake]...The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience...It is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet, underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are acted out.[David B. Schwartz]...There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.[Thoreau]...There was a time when it was literally impossible for people to separate belief in a divinity from the sense of belonging to a geographically circumscribed community.[Seymour Sarason]..........Here's a few of the authors that helped me think about the crucial nature of building livable communities.
Andrew W. Savitz - The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are ...
Wendell Berry - Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays
Stephen Goldsmith - Putting Faith in Neighborhoods: Making Cities Work through ...
Jedediah Purdy - For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America T...
Doug Kelbaugh - Repairing the American Metropolis: Common Place Revisited (...
William Saunders - Sprawl and Suburbia: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader (Harv...
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict (Bk L...
Michael H. Shuman - The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating...
Diana Whitney - The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Pos...
Robert D. Putnam - Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Commun...
Kirkpatrick Sale - The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement, ...
Kevin Lynch - The Image of the City
The Deliberative Democracy Handbook: Strategies for Effecti...
Congress for the New Urbanism - Charter of The New Urbanism
Peter Katz - The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the "G...
Daniel Kemmis - Community and the Politics of Place
Philip Langdon - A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb
Joel Bakan - The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Pow...
Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Iris Marion Young - Inclusion and Democracy (Oxford Political Theory)
John P. Kretzmann - Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Fin...
Peter Barnes - Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons (Bk Curre...
Daniel Goleman - Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
Frank Fischer - Citizens, Experts, and the Environment: The Politics of Loc...
Herman E. Daly - For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Communi...
Jim Diers - Neighbor Power: Building Community The Seattle Way
Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Action / G...
David L Cooperrider - Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change
Jerry Mander - In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and...
David B. Schwartz - Who Cares?: Rediscovering Community
Benjamin R. Barber - Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age
Douglas E. Morris - It's a Sprawl World After All: The Human Cost of Unplanned ...
Gwendolyn Hallsmith - The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transf...
George Ritzer - The McDonaldization of Society
William S. Saunders - Urban Planning Today: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader (Har...
Margaret Kohn - Brave New Neighborhoods: The Privatization of Public Space
People, Land, and Community: Collected E. F. Schumacher Soc...
Frank Bryan - The Vermont Papers: Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale
Albert Borgmann - Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology
Bob Willard - The Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case Benefits ...
Eric O. Jacobsen - Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Fa...
John McKnight - The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits
Gary M. Nelson - Self-Governance in Communities and Families
Ray Oldenburg - The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars...
Ivan Illich - Disabling Professions (Ideas in Progress)
Don Mitchell - The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Pub...
Thad Williamson - Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global E...
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