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Why Place Matters - Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America (Hardcover)
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Why Place Matters - Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America (Hardcover)
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Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and
economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a
sense of "place" and community. Appreciating place is essential for
building the strong local communities that cultivate civic
engagement, public leadership, and many of the other goods that
contribute to a flourishing human life.
Do we, in losing our places, lose the crucial basis for healthy and
resilient individual identity, and for the cultivation of public
virtues? For one can't be a citizen without being a citizen of some
place in particular; one isn't a citizen of a motel. And if these
dangers are real and present ones, are there ways that intelligent
public policy can begin to address them constructively, by means of
reasonable and democratic innovations that are likely to attract
wide public support?
"Why Place Matters" takes these concerns seriously, and its
contributors seek to discover how, given the American people as
they are, and American economic and social life as it now
exists--and not as those things can be imagined to be in some
utopian scheme--we can find means of fostering a richer and more
sustaining way of life. The book is an anthology of essays
exploring the contemporary problems of place and placelessness in
American society.
The book includes contributions from distinguished scholars and
writers such as poet Dana Gioia (former chairman of the National
Endowment for the Arts), geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, urbanist Witold
Rybczynski, architect Philip Bess, essayists Christine Rosen and
Ari Schulman, philosopher Roger Scruton, transportation planner
Gary Toth, and historians Russell Jacoby and Joseph Amato.
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