Achieving Community: Let's Get Real

"Looking at the types of neighborhoods ... where many if not most people lack the option of just buying their way out of their problems — should tell us something."

"When we need each other we naturally organize ourselves in particular ways. Those ways work, from a purely functional standpoint. But they also work on a deeper level. By bringing us closer and enabling the give-and-take of daily human negotiation, they also make us something more. Something better."

"There’s the idea of community as it’s often presented in marketing literature and then there’s this. When people say they yearn for community, whether they realize it or not, this is what they’re pining for."

Scott Doyon references Kristen Jeffers of the Black Urbanist and Michael Harriot's The Caucasian's Guide to Black Neighborhoods to broach this subject, and then looks at sharing economy tools like Josephine to talk about alternative approaches to community building.