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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 17, 2005
Community Development Journal 2005 40(4):459-465; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi075
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Better Together: Restoring the American community

Robert D. Putnam and Lewis M. Feldstein, with Don Cohen, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2003, 318 pp.

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   How to make social capital: Bowling Alone's sequel, Better Together
 
Surely no other book about community development has been welcomed with so much fanfare as Robert Putnam and Lewis Feldstein's Better Together.

As one columnist wrote after Better Together was published in the United States:

Feldstein has been travelling the nation giving talks to crowds as large as 500 in Seattle and 300 in Chicago, sometimes on his own, sometimes with Putnam.... The book tour is going ‘superbly’, Feldstein said... ‘the book has crossed over into being a news story, as the subject of lead edits (editorials) in a number of papers: the San Francisco Chronicle, the Portland Oregonian, the Santa Clara Union’. (Brenda Charpentier, December 2003)

Although the term ‘social capital’ is far from new (Farr, 2004) and the concept subject to serious dispute, just one approach is ascendant. Based on the short but broad definition of Harvard University's fêted Professor . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Participate: The way forward
Community development on main street
Conclusion
Martin Mowbray

Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia; martin.mowbray@rmit.edu.au


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