Community Building Archive Redefining communal living: Communal living to the previous generation meant that you had to take More + You know there’s a strong sense of community when…: …the walls at the neighborhood supermarket are plastered with personal classified ads More + Blank slate for a CoolTown beta community in Detroit: Some people in Detroit got tired of seeing more strip malls, subdivisions More + Want to grow your local businesses? Print your own money: Want to build a stronger sense of community? Print your own money. More + Why does Athens have such a strong sense of community?: The business manager of Athens Weekly News, a popular local political paper, More + Seeding a beta community: Last night at a presentation by renowned town planner Andres Duany for More + The beta community: We are evolving into a customer-driven economy, where customers are so well-informed More + CoolTowns good for marriages?: 50% of marriages end in divorce. Why so high? Well, first of More + Q&A: Shouldn’t people come before buildings?: As a civic/community-building practitioner, I often observe a disconnect in how communities More + Introducing CoolTown Q&A: Here’s a new CoolTown blog feature: As CoolTown Network members were sending More + Connecting a virtual world to the physical: The benefits of building community virtually (via the internet) are often seriously More + Building community – virtually: There’s an old argument that the internet is isolating people. However, if More + Special Report: Update on Office Community: Affinity Lab happy hour: As promised, here’s an update on my workplace’s More + Investing in Community: For regular blog viewers, you may notice that I end the weekly More + Communities vs. cliques: Community: A group of people living in the same locality; a group More + Community in the office: Actually, the verdict isn’t in yet, but the way I’m hoping to More + Do you know your neighbors?: There are seventy or so people who live in my building (image More + Where is that elusive sense of community?: It’s something many of us secretly ask ourselves, and there’s even a More + I want diversity in my town! How?: At least that’s what the cultural creatives, the early adopters and today’s More + 12