The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community is based on a multiplicity of stories arising from the author's experience in developing places where people live. Being based on narrative, richly amplified by cameo stories from a number of other contributors, it is an engaging read. The approach is refreshing for following the line of inductive reasoning based on empirical experience, rather than deductive logic based on carefully selected and presented sources. However, and despite the word 'guideline' being used in the title, the book never quite reads as a guide: the reader learns most through the stories.
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