Ebook: Palaces for the People : How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
Author: Eric Klinenberg
- Tags: Infrastructure (Economics) -- United States, City planning -- United States, Equality -- United States, Quality of life -- United States, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Crown
- Edition: First Edition.
- Language: English
- epub
"An eminent sociologist--and coauthor, with Aziz Ansari, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Modern Romance--makes the provocative case that the future of democratic societies rests not only on shared values but also on shared "social infrastructure": the libraries, childcare centers, bookstores, coffee shops, pools, and parks that promote crucial, sometimes life-saving connections between people who might otherwise Read more...