Dr. Jerry Stein dives into Jane Addams’ settlement house movement and it’s impact on modern day community building.

Kathleen Hirsch argues that for communities to thrive, they must be comprised of people who act more like verbs than nouns.

Unanticipated Gains demonstrates that social capital is built less by people’s deliberate “networking” than by the informal institutional conditions of social connections such as within beauty salons, churches, childcare centers, schools and other organizations where people interact and connect routinely.