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Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I: Losing Community
1. Losing Touch
- Caretakers
- The Crumbling Network
- Loss of Community
- The Market for Intimacy
- The Power of Anonymity
2. The Trade-ins
- Mobility: The Stewardess Syndrome
"Friendship"
- Growing up Gypsy
- Privacy: Everyone a Howard Hughes
- "Autonomy-Withdrawal
- Unknown Killers
- Convenience: The Dishwasher Gap
- The Shrinking Kitchen
- Slot-Machine Meals
- Noise
- Cars
- Against Community
- Of the Car, By the Car, and For the
Car
Part II: Seeking Community
3. "And All in the Privacy of Your Own
Home"
- Here's ... Community!
- Family by Subscription
- Let Your Fingers Do the Walking
4. The National Home Town
- Someone You Know, Wherever You Go
- Laundro-Mating
- Trust
- Uniforms
- Sticking Together
- No Place for Intimacy
5. Handi-Dispoz Community
- Weekend Romance
- All My Friends Are Gonna' Be Strangers
-- And My Lovers
- The "Freeway On-Ramp" Search
- Queue Community
- Audience
- Just Add Hot Dogs and Stir
- A Ten-Block Commitment
- "I'm Community, Fly Me"
6. Serve the Community, Be the Community
- Centering
- From Bureaucracy to Brotherhood
- "Family"
- Agapurgy
- Loneliness, Loneliness, Loneliness
Part III: Building Community
7. Known at Last!
- The Fear of Being Known
- New Approaches to Intimacy
- Happiness
- Tragically Known
- Turn Back the Clock
- Waiting on Uncle Sam
- Take to the Hills!
- Let's Get to Work!
- What's "Community"?
- Prescott
- Stages of Community
- Defining Community
- Non-Residential Community
8. Blocks in Building Community
- Manageable Size
- Exclusion
- Oppression
- Commitment
9. Tools
- Sources
- A Hangout
- Shared Hardship
- A Sense of Deviance
- Keeping the Air Clear
- Ritual
- A Culture All Your Own
- Other Tools
- My Communities
- In Closing ...
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