Libby, I find it interesting that many people who live in large urban areas discover that their neighborhood is a kind of community. In fact, some neighborhoods even within megalopolises like New York or Los Angeles have more attributes of community -- in the sense of local businesses and people looking out for one another -- than are fo…
Libby, I find it interesting that many people who live in large urban areas discover that their neighborhood is a kind of community. In fact, some neighborhoods even within megalopolises like New York or Los Angeles have more attributes of community -- in the sense of local businesses and people looking out for one another -- than are found in many smaller towns. Which raises the interesting question: What makes a community?
This seems worth more work … probably dozens of studies been done already … a conjecture has often popped up, that we each effectively live in a very small world of a very few close friends and family we know best and see most often, a group of others who support us and vice versa, maybe a hundred we know by face or name, and then another hundred celebrities and politicians and writers … so what does it mean to be a citizen of a city of millions, a world of billions?
We lived for years in Hood River, a picture book town of 7500 in Oregon, — it didn't feel a whole lot different from living in Santa Rosa, a town of 180,000 … because we only interact with a few hundred anyway? — b.rad
Libby, I find it interesting that many people who live in large urban areas discover that their neighborhood is a kind of community. In fact, some neighborhoods even within megalopolises like New York or Los Angeles have more attributes of community -- in the sense of local businesses and people looking out for one another -- than are found in many smaller towns. Which raises the interesting question: What makes a community?
This seems worth more work … probably dozens of studies been done already … a conjecture has often popped up, that we each effectively live in a very small world of a very few close friends and family we know best and see most often, a group of others who support us and vice versa, maybe a hundred we know by face or name, and then another hundred celebrities and politicians and writers … so what does it mean to be a citizen of a city of millions, a world of billions?
We lived for years in Hood River, a picture book town of 7500 in Oregon, — it didn't feel a whole lot different from living in Santa Rosa, a town of 180,000 … because we only interact with a few hundred anyway? — b.rad
I think empathy and getting to know each other, and living in the same place.