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Corrosion of Community Series
January 28, 2013 | 9:46 am

Corrosion of Community: Impossible standards as an excuse for inaction

Community fascinates me. Not just the idea of it, but the dynamics, and how those dynamics end up stoking or choking our collective efforts to be together. Having worked in a lot of different places, I’ve had opportunity to study community in action, at both its strongest and weakest, in all different contexts — economic, political, cultural — and have tried to identify patterns that lead to results.

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Category Community Development, Public Engagement, Resilience9 CommentsTags bike lanes, Corrosion of Community Series, Resilience, Scott Doyon

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