Our Towns
From Open Source Ecology
Basics
- A book by James Fallows and Deborah Fallows
- Copyrighted 2018-2019
- Details their journey through the USA to study how troubled communities are fixing their issues
- It also discusses the inverse relationship of national and local politics; National Cooperation goes down, local Cooperation goees up
1.) Divisive national politics seem a distant concern
- IE Local projects are not halted by national politics
2.) You can pick out the local patriots
3.) “Public-private partnerships” are real
- non corrupt publi-private partnerships are commonplace
4.) People know the civic story
- united message + goal is had + widely understood
5.) They have a downtown
6.) They are near a research university
7.) They have, and care about, a community college
8.) They have unusual schools
- Ie ones with out of the box methods, special facilities (makerspaces), job training etc
9.) They make themselves open
10.)They have big plans
- Big ideas but also long term thinking, which they pointed out as being easier at a local level than the national level
10.5)They have craft breweries
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