PDF-[READ]-Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America

Contemporary American society with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place and community Appreciating place is essential for building the strong local communities that cultivate civic engagement public leadership and many of the other goods that contribute to a flourishing human lifeDo we in losing our places lose the crucial basis for healthy and resilient individual identity and for the cultivation of public virtues For one cant be a citizen without being a citizen of some place in particular one isnt a citizen of a motel And if these dangers are real and present ones are there ways that intelligent public policy can begin to address them constructively by means of reasonable and democratic innovations that are likely to attract wide public supportWhy Place Matters takes these concerns seriously and its contributors seek to discover how given the American people as they are and American economic and social life as it now existsand not as those things can be imagined to be in some utopian schemewe can find means of fostering a richer and more sustaining way of life The book is an anthology of essays exploring the contemporary problems of place and placelessness in American societyThe book includes contributions from distinguished scholars and writers such as poet Dana Gioia former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts geographer YiFu Tuan urbanist Witold Rybczynski architect Philip Bess essayists Christine Rosen and Ari Schulman philosopher Roger Scruton transportation planner Gary Toth and historians Russell Jacoby and Joseph Amato. geography matters chapter19. 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The first American Indians came from Asia to No. America between 11-12,000 years ago via a land bridge over the Bering Straits. The Gap Today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1n47P2d1Fg&feature=BFa&list=PL1z67Fpyjorhh44M3J7T-wnTFFqO--iJv. The International Society for Science and Religion has selected Matters of Life and Death as an element of the ISSR Library. The mission of the ISSR Library is to provide a comprehensive resource for scholars, students, and interested lay readers in the area of science and the human spirit. The incredible medical breakthroughs of today, like genetic engineering, in-vitro fertilizations, and cloning have transformed long-held beliefs on the nature of both life and death, raising difficult moral and religious questions. In Matters of Life and Death Elliot Dorff thoroughly addresses this unavoidable confluence of medical technology and Jewish law and ethics.