Community

<b>This practical guide to building stable healthy and inclusive communities offers an antidote to today's polarizing culture of isolation.</b> <p/>With the increasing violence in our culture the widening ideological divides and the growing gap in economic well-being a deeper sense of community is desperately needed. But even as we acknowledge the need to build community the typical ways we engage people civically and organizationally remain essentially unchanged. In <i>Community</i> Peter Block explores how authentic community can emerge from fragmentation and offers practical steps and strategies we can use to foster this transformation. <p/>This updated and revised edition draws on a decade of putting Block's ideas into practice. New examples show that community building can be a more powerful way to address social problems than more traditional policies and programs. And encouragingly Block demonstrates how simple positive transformation can be once we decide it is essential.