{"product_id":"main-street-how-a-citys-heart-connects-us-all-9781613321263","title":"Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTraverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow do Main Streets contribute to our mental health? This intriguing question took social psychiatrist Mindy Thompson Fullilove on an 11-year search through 178 cities in 14 countries. As Andy Merrifield notes in the foreword, \"Mindy has drifted through a lot of Main Streets, walked them, observed, talked to people, ordinary people as well as professional practitioners. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile she got to pace many miles of New York's Broadway, eat French patisseries as a flâneuse in Gay Paree, sip çay in Istanbul, and chill in Kyoto's dazzling Zen temples, her real concern is Main Street, USA, the more modest main stems of provincial America.\" From these visits Fullilove has discerned the larger architecture of Main Streets. She observes the ways that Main Streets are shaped for a vast array of social gatherings and processes, how they are a marker for\u003cbr\u003ethe integrity of civilization-and the marks aren't always good. She also looks at Main Streets as \"an allée, a way that is part drama and part quotidian. While passing through, we get to look at one another, to sing, to recognize what we are, have been, might be.\" Her conclusion, that Main Streets are essential for gathering people and sharing information, emphasizes that tending our oft-neglected civic and commercial centers is a task worthy of us all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMindy Thompson Fullilove (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMindy Thompson Fullilove, \u003c\/b\u003e MD, is an American social psychiatrist who focuses on the ways environmental factors affect the mental health of communities. She is Professor of Urban Policy and Health, Urban Policy Analysis \u0026amp; Management Program, Milano School for International Affairs, Management \u0026amp; Urban Policy, The New School. She has numerous published articles and six books, including \u003ci\u003eURBAN ALCHEMY: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eROOT SHOCK: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndy Merrifield (Foreword by) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ANDY MERRIFIELD is an independent scholar and author of a dozen books, as well as numerous\u003cbr\u003earticles, essays and reviews appearing in Monthly Review, The Nation, Harper's Magazine, New\u003cbr\u003eLeft Review, The Guardian, Literary Hub, Jacobin, and Dissent. He is a prolific writer about\u003cbr\u003eurbanism, political theory and literature, with titles credited to him including Dialectical\u003cbr\u003eUrbanism (Monthly Review Press), The New Urban Question, and Magical Marxism. He has also\u003cbr\u003epublished three intellectual biographies, of Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord, and John Berger, a\u003cbr\u003epopular existential travelogue, The Wisdom of Donkeys, a manifesto for liberated living, The\u003cbr\u003eAmateur, together with a memoir about cities and love, inspired by Raymond Carver's short\u003cbr\u003estories, called What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities (and Love). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Village Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630474137874,"sku":"9781613321263","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b51ea1a5-6fba-4610-8075-001a1fb39b02.jpg?v=1732753118","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/main-street-how-a-citys-heart-connects-us-all-9781613321263","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}