A Home in the Heart of a City
by Kathleen Hirsch
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When Kathleen Hirsch first moved to Jamaica Plain, an unassuming neighborhood in Boston, she was looking for a place to belong, to set down roots. Was it possible, she wondered, to find community in a contemporary city? A Home in the Heart of a City is Hirsch's exuberant & hopeful response. We follow her as she meets extraordinary individuals, including the protector of a local park, & urban gardener, & a corporate lawyer turned community advocate. They become her guides, showing that living show more well in community is as much about the personal choices we make to work, play, & associate in certain ways as it is about the grassroots institutions we build to foster community life. show lessTags
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Kathleen Hirsch is the author of "Songs from the Alley" & "A Home in the Heart of the City". She lives with her family in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 307.3 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Communities Structure
- LCC
- HN80 .B7 .H57 — Social sciences Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Social history and conditions. Social problems. By region or country
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- English
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