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Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg • Modern Romance
It’s long been understood that social cohesion develops through repeated human interaction and joint participation in shared projects, not merely from a principled commitment to abstract values and beliefs.
Eric Klinenberg • Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
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Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg • Modern Romance
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
But, as we know, it’s not a crazy idea.
Public libraries are the crazy, radical ideas that might save society | Kinder Institute for Urban Research
What counts as social infrastructure? I define it capaciously. Public institutions, such as libraries, schools, playgrounds, parks, athletic fields, and swimming pools, are vital parts of the social infrastructure. So too are sidewalks, courtyards, community gardens, and other green spaces that invite people into the public realm. Community organiz
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Eli Pariser • How Urban Planning Could Help Build Better Online Spaces | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Surely this is just the theme with which we began: the way an environment of high informational density produces people of low personal density. A world that seems to give us infinite choice actually makes choice nearly impossible: the informational context chooses for us.
Alan Jacobs • Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.