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 ...

Notes