Posts by eseospace_admin
The Forgotten Neighborhood
Understanding place-based dynamics can help us address social breakdown.
Strong Neighborhoods: Key to Reviving America and Building a Flourishing Society
Abstract: American neighborhoods have declined over the past few decades, contributing to rising isolation, mistrust, and polarization....
Understanding America’s Fragility Problem
A society is only as strong as its social connectedness, something COVID-19 vividly revealed.
Place-Based Strategies for Reviving America
Social problems are entrenched in distressed communities. New approaches for uplifting neighborhoods demonstrate the scale and collabor...
Beyond Arguments: Reversing Social Breakdown
Americans are reducing their embedded commitments (that is, deep, loyal and long-standing relationships) to each other just wh...
Why Liberalism Depends on Neighborhood Dynamics
In recent years, American politics and civil exchange have exhibited rising polarization and declining accommodation for difference. Ou...
Building Relationships, Strengthening Neighborhoods
Systems change efforts that focus on boosting social capital and collective efficacy through building relationships within communities ...
Reversing Social Disintegration
Social disintegration in parts of our society is plainly rooted in the decline of key institutions of formation, and especially marriag...
A Systems Approach to Social Disintegration
Social disintegration — especially in working-class neighborhoods hit hard by the decline of the American industrial base — is a misund...