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Readings

BELLAH, R.N. et alii.  1985.  Habits of the Heart.  New York:  Harper & Row.

 

BELLAH, R.N. et alii.  1991.  The Good Society.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf.

 

BIERMAN, A.K.  1973.  The Philosophy of Urban Existence.  Athens:  Ohio University Press.

 

BOYTE, H.C.  1989.  CommonWealth:  A Return to Citizen Politics.  New York:  The Free Press.

 

DEWEY, J.  1927.  The Public and Its Problems.  New York:  Henry Holt & Co.

 

FRIEDMANN, J.  1979.  The Good Society.  Cambridge:  The MIT Press.

 

GUTMANN, A. and D. THOMPSON.  1996.  Democracy and Disagreement.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press.

 

KEMMIS, D.  1990.  Community and the Politics of Place.  Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press.

 

KEMMIS, D.1995.  The Good City and the Good Life.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Co.

 

KOTLER, M.  1969.  Neighborhood Government:  The Local Foundations of Political Life.  Indianapolis:  The Bobbs-Merrill Co.

 

LAPPE, F.M & DUBOIS, P.M.  1994.  The Quickening of America.  San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass.

 

LIPPMANN, W.  1947.  An Inquiry into the Principles of the Good Society.  Boston:  Little, Brown and Co.

 

MATHEWS, D.  1994.  Politics for People:  Finding a Responsible Public Voice.  Urbana:  University of Illinois Press.

 

MORSE,  S.W.  2004.  Smart Communities:  How Citizens and Local Leaders Can Use Strategic Thinking to Build a Brighter Future.  San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass.

 

OSBORNE, D & P. HUTCHINSON.  2004.  The Price of Government:  Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis.  NY:  Basic Books.

 

TUAN, Y-F.  1986.  The Good Life.  Madison:  The University of Wisconsin Press.

 

VILLA, D.  2001.  Socratic Citizenship.  Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press.

 

 

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