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How can we bring people together? In Palaces for the People the sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea for health, happiness, safety and healing our divided, unequal society.
'This wonderful book shows us how democracies thrive' Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt,…
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I love this book because Eric Klinenberg writes it like a love letter to libraries, parks, and places of worship—the everyday spaces.
I have spent my career studying, and he makes the case for them with more warmth than any academic study I have read. His qualitative fieldwork brought home just how much these ordinary buildings do the quiet work of stitching together a country that so often feels defined by division.
Reading it, I felt like someone had finally put language to what I had been trying to show through data for years: that social infrastructure is not a…
From Daniel's list on Daniel P. Aldrich's favorite books on the everyday places that hold communities together.
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