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In this earnest, cordial meander, Kemmis (Community and the Politics of Place) draws on his own experience?as mayor of Missoula, Montana, and visits elsewhere?to explore the notion of community. People who label themselves taxpayers, he observes trenchantly, do not see themselves as democratic citizens. Similarly, he notes that urban critics such as Jane Jacobs view politicians only as obstacles, while he considers them "entrepreneurs" of power. Citing various civic and cultural initiatives around the country, Kemmis suggests that communities can and must seek to achieve such abstractions as wholeness, grace, character and healing. He's basically right, but his not-so-deep survey fully engages neither the current debates about communitarianism nor the endemic economic and racial problems of America's large cities.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Daniel Kemmis is a successful politician, former Montana state legislator, and current second-term mayor of Missoula, Montana. He is rare among elected officials as a thoughtful interpreter of and commentator on the nature of citizenship and political responsibility; even more rare, he is a fluent and engaging writer. The Good City and the Good Life is a wide-ranging discussion of democracy as a human enterprise. Kemmis uses personal experience and the experience of other cities and citizens in exploring key issues before the public. These issues include economic growth and development, education, health, and cultural life, from hometown Missoula to Baltimore, Dallas, and Seattle in the United States, to Germany and Japan in looking around the world. Though laced with references to literature, philosophy, history, and the work of important contemporary urbanologists, this is a down-to-earth and deeply felt work intended to reach out to all levels in a society concerned about its future
In this earnest, cordial meander, Kemmis (Community and the Politics of Place) draws on his own experience?as mayor of Missoula, Montana, and visits elsewhere?to explore the notion of community. People who label themselves taxpayers, he observes trenchantly, do not see themselves as democratic citizens. Similarly, he notes that urban critics such as Jane Jacobs view politicians only as obstacles, while he considers them "entrepreneurs" of power. Citing various civic and cultural initiatives around the country, Kemmis suggests that communities can and must seek to achieve such abstractions as wholeness, grace, character and healing. He's basically right, but his not-so-deep survey fully engages neither the current debates about communitarianism nor the endemic economic and racial problems of America's large cities.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Daniel Kemmis is a successful politician, former Montana state legislator, and current second-term mayor of Missoula, Montana. He is rare among elected officials as a thoughtful interpreter of and commentator on the nature of citizenship and political responsibility; even more rare, he is a fluent and engaging writer. The Good City and the Good Life is a wide-ranging discussion of democracy as a human enterprise. Kemmis uses personal experience and the experience of other cities and citizens in exploring key issues before the public. These issues include economic growth and development, education, health, and cultural life, from hometown Missoula to Baltimore, Dallas, and Seattle in the United States, to Germany and Japan in looking around the world. Though laced with references to literature, philosophy, history, and the work of important contemporary urbanologists, this is a down-to-earth and deeply felt work intended to reach out to all levels in a society concerned about its future
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