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Title: The Good City and the Good Life : Renewing the Sense of Community
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 039568630X
ISBN 13: 9780395686300
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 0.902 pounds

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The author offers down-to-earth commentary on the nature of citizenship and political responsibility, as he uses personal experience to explore democracy as a human enterprise

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In this earnest, cordial meander, Kemmis (Community and the Politics of Place) draws on his own experience?as mayor of Missoula, Montana, and visits elsewhere?to explore the notion of community. People who label themselves taxpayers, he observes trenchantly, do not see themselves as democratic citizens. Similarly, he notes that urban critics such as Jane Jacobs view politicians only as obstacles, while he considers them "entrepreneurs" of power. Citing various civic and cultural initiatives around the country, Kemmis suggests that communities can and must seek to achieve such abstractions as wholeness, grace, character and healing. He's basically right, but his not-so-deep survey fully engages neither the current debates about communitarianism nor the endemic economic and racial problems of America's large cities.
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