Community Technology [Paperback]

Karl Hess (Author), Carol Moore (Introduction)

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Loompanics Unlimited (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1559501340
• ISBN-13: 978-1559501347
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,070,466 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #12 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Sociology > Urban

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3.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating case covered with the wrong focus., July 16, 1998

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[e-mail] (East Lansing, MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Community Technology (Paperback)

As someone with a great interest in seeing communities like that described in Community Technologies develop, I was dissapointed in Hess' approach to the subject. Much of the book was a Wendell Berry style argument about the need for change in the American lifestyle, though Hess differs from Berry in that he is not as eloquent and thinks more urbanly than Berry. What I hoped for was a detailed account of WHAT happened, HOW they made it happened, and WHY it didn't work. Not nearly enough space was devoted to those issues, so it was difficult to draw my own conclusions.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good idea, poor reception, January 30, 2011

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Katcha Sanderson "sandkat50" (northern CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Community Technology (Paperback)

I was happy to read of the activities undertaken by this man had some success, but as too typical of such projects - few doing, rest 'riding' on efforts. And while its a rather interesting contrast between free individual efforts undertaken in (free choice) group situations, the book is a potentially inspiring 'guide' of sorts. Not a bad book to hold onto for future reference just in case of collapse and re-start.