Mindy Thompson Fullilove traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities After an 11-year study of Main Streets in 178 cities and 14 countries, Fullilove discovered the power of city centers to help us name and solve our problems.
While she got to pace many miles of New York\'s Broadway, eat French patisseries as a fl�neuse in Gay Paree, sip �ay in Istanbul, and chill in Kyoto\'s da.
As Andy Merrifield notes in the foreword, Mindy has drifted through a lot of Main Streets, walked them, observed, talked to people, ordinary people as well as professional practitioners.
Traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities How do Main Streets contribute to our mental health? This intriguing question took social psychiatrist Mindy Thompson Fullilove on an 11-year search through 178 cities in 14 countries.
Providing a framework for those who wish to see their communities revitalized, Fullilove\'s Main Street encourages us all to look both inward and outward to find the assets that already exist to create meaningful change.
Using case studies to illustrate her findings, Fullilove turns our eyes to the cracks in city centers, the parts of the city that tend to be avoided or ignored.
Throughout Main Street, readers glimpse strong, vibrant communities who have conquered a variety of disasters, from the near loss of a beloved local business to the devastation of a hurricane.
This is the power she hopes we will find again.
Only a very well-integrated, powerful community--one with deep spiritual principles--could have accomplished such a feat. . . .
Through that lens, we can appreciate the strength of segregated communities that managed to temper the ravages of racism through the Jim Crow era, and build political power and many kinds of wealth.
In the face of urban renewal programs built in response to a supposed lack of personal responsibility, Fullilove offers a different story, that of a series of forced displacements that had devastating effects on inner-city communities. in disrepair, weakening our cities and leaving us vulnerable to catastrophe.
However, Fullilove describes how a pattern of disinvestment in inner-city neighborhoods has left Main Streets across the U.
S.
In an era of compounding crises including racial injustice, climate change, and COVID-19, the ability to rely on the power of community is more important than ever.
Mindy Thompson Fullilove traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities After an 11-year study of Main Streets in 178 cities and 14 countries, Fullilove discovered the power of city centers to help us name and solve our problems
