Index

• Ace Hardware, 167
• Adventure playgrounds, 116, 194–195
• Advertising, 131
• Age of Loneliness, The, 8
• Agglomeration benefits of transit stops, 171
• AirBnB, 30, 47, 90
• Air conditioning, 118, 196–197
• Alaskan Way Viaduct, 174
• Albany (New York), 235
• Albany Curling Club, 97
• Albuquerque (New Mexico), 136, 230
• Alienated labor, 35, 75, 90
• Alperovitz, Gar, 30, 47
• American Academy of Pediatrics, 191, 207
• American Dream, 144
• American trolley system, demise of, 23–24, 170
• Amish. See Technology, the Amish and
• Anchor institutions, 46, 163–165, 168–169. See also Community manifesting, economically; Economic localism
• Anderson, Benedict, 40–41
• Ann Arbor (Michigan), 155
• Anxieties
  • about choice, 55
  • and economic purchases, 163
  • parental, 179–180, 192–193, 195
  • about public dangers, 117
  • social, 12, 27, 121
  • and technologies, 221–223
• Apple, 19, 46, 126, 206
• Appropriate technology. See Technology, appropriate
• Arab Spring, 227
• Architecture’s insensitivity to climate, 187, 197–198
• Arendt, Hannah, 61
• Augé, Marc, 43

• Balkan, Aral, 205
• Ballet of the sidewalk, 68, 71
• Banks, 102–103, 131, 135, 142, 153
• Barber, Benjamin, 51, 54, 59
• Barcelona (Spain), 68–69
• Barney, Darin, 94
• Barriers
  • bureaucratic requirements as, 172–173
  • to choice, 151 (see also Limits of agency)
  • constraints on learning and thinking as, 157 (see also Governing mentality)
  • to democracy, 155, 235–236
  • financial, 139, 161–162, 166–167, 170, 186–187, 195, 199
  • in general, 134–135, 247
  • to intergenerational social ties, 204–205
  • mortgage practices as erecting, 139
  • posed by biased expertise, 191
  • posed by corporate opposition, 162, 199
  • posed by deficits in expertise, 150–151
  • posed by expectations regarding sleep, 192–194
  • posed by financing, 143, 153
  • posed by “free” Internet culture, 176
  • posed by “free market” thinking
  • posed by ideas about modernity, 186
  • posed by infrastructure, 142–143
  • posed by perverse subsidies, 136–141
  • posed by preoccupation with accountability, 179
  • posed by preoccupation with athletic performance, 180
  • posed by preoccupation with choice, 199–200
  • posed by real estate conservatism, 187
  • posed by unaffordability, 139–140, 151–152
  • posed by warrior cop culture, 200
  • posed by zoning and codes, 142, 146–149
  • regulatory uncertainty as erecting, 160
  • resulting from ignorance, 12, 236
  • urban form as presenting, 79–81, 195
  • to walking, 73
• Barriers to communitarian
  • adventure playgrounds, 194–196
  • arrangements of technological repair and maintenance, 205–207
  • building arrangements (Baugruppen), 153
  • chance encounters, 68
  • child-rearing, 190
  • domestic environments, 185–190
  • economic arrangements, 72, 88–91, 126–128, 163–170
  • energy systems, 159–163
  • Internets, 175–177
  • organizations, 178–184
  • third places, 153–154
  • transportation systems, 170–174
  • urban form, 66, 135
• Baudrillard, Jean, 113
• Baugruppen, 78, 152, 230–231
• Baumgartner, M. P., 66, 77, 79, 81
• Belk, Russell, 47
• Bellah, Robert, 3–4, 27, 38, 113
• Ben-Ari, Eyal, 112
• Benefits corporation, 183
• Beniger, James, 43
• Benkler, Yochai, 1
• Berger Inquiry, 51
• Berry, Wendell, 49, 81
• Bethel House, 53
• Bioregionalism, 49–50
• Blais, Pamela, 136
• Boorstin, Daniel, 212
• Borgmann, Albert, 64, 86, 108, 129
• Boys and Girls Clubs of America, 182
• Brain, David, 61
• Breazeal, Cynthia, 221, 223
• Briggle, Adam, 84
• Briggs, Jean, 52
• Brint, Stephen, 29, 57
• British Petroleum and Deepwater Horizon, 211
• Bubble-wrap generation, 115
• Building codes, 146–150, 161, 187
• Burlington (Vermont), 151–152
• Bush, George W., 214
• Bus rapid transit, 173

• Calgary (Alberta), 92, 122
• Calhoun, Craig, 42
• Camden (New Jersey), 166
• Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, 203
• Central heating, 108–110
• Charrettes, 149, 229
• Cheney, Dick, 225
• Choice
  • limitations of, 55, 121, 128, 135–136, 222–223
  • limitations of economistic understanding of, 163
  • as underlying logic of networked individualism, 29
• Churches
  • atheistic (see Sunday Assembly)
  • declining attendance of, 96, 102
  • evangelical mega-, 100
  • traditional black, 101–102
• City Beautiful, 65
• Civic communion. See Community, rhetorical creation of
• Civil society, 7, 27, 43, 49
• Clean Water Act, 225
• Coarse-grained urban form, 62, 66–67, 71
• Cochlear implants, 54–55
• Cocooning
  • domestic, 109, 113, 116–120
  • public, 120–122
• Cohen, Anthony, 42–43
• Cohousing, 20, 78, 152
• Coleman, Gabriela, 55
• Commitment
  • avoidance of relational, 27, 111, 243
  • communal political efficacy and, 74
  • to community symbols, 42–43
  • corporations’ lack of, 46–47
  • entailing freedoms and constraints
  • moral community and, 54
  • to political values as influencing scholarship, 17, 27 (see also Scholarship, as partisan)
  • to political values in economic purchases, 163
  • understandings of the self and, 3, 29, 181
  • virtual communities’ limited demands for, 93
• Common resources, 49, 76, 147
• Communes, 54, 57
• Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, 176
• Communitarianism, 29, 48–49, 120
• Community. See also Thick Community
  • arguments against decline of, 4
  • authenticity and, 31, 34, 59, 245
  • contrived forms of, 43–44, 69, 74
  • dichotomous view of, 11, 31, 34, 59
  • diversity of forms of, 33–34
  • freedom and, 56 (see also Liberalism; Liberty)
  • gated, 43, 74, 77
  • idealization of, 11, 14, 31, 61
  • identity and, 33, 44, 52, 57–58, 61
  • incompatibility of contemporary economics with, 37–38
  • as individual responsibility, 8, 19, 73
  • justice and, 50–51
  • land trusts, 77, 151–152
  • multidimensional, 10, 25, 34, 59–61, 245, 249
  • perception of decline of, 6, 26–29, 35
  • place and, 50
  • as a political question, 5, 246
  • reconstructing, 1, 9, 13, 134, 247
  • reduction to symbolic dimension, 42–43
  • rhetorical creation of, 41–42, 45, 70, 96, 101
  • risks of nostalgia regarding, 14, 195–196
  • shared amenities and, 70
  • social justice and, 14, 59
  • tolerance and, 57–59
  • urban life and, 35, 59, 67
• Community manifesting
  • economically, 37–38, 45–48, 71–73, 243
  • morally, 52–59, 79, 84
  • politically, 48–52, 74–80, 98, 107, 116, 227–228
  • as a psychological or symbolic sense, 37, 40–45, 68–71, 116
  • as relational exchanges, 36–39, 79
  • as talk, 39–40, 69–70, 101
  • as webs of social ties, 34–36, 66
• Community’s relationship to
  • authoritarianism, 7, 57–59
  • child-rearing, 112–116, 241
  • companion robots, 125–126
  • conflict (see Conflict, community and)
  • devices and gadgets, 116–122
  • domestic technologies, 108–112
  • energy, 86–87
  • environment problems, 6–7, 50, 208–209, 250–251
  • infrastructure, 83–95
  • organizational technologies, 95–103
  • personal firearms, 122–123
  • policing, 50, 53, 61, 75, 123–125, 200–202
  • sports, 76, 121, 154–155
  • technologies’ repair and maintenance, 126–127
  • universities, 169, 251
  • urban form, 65–71, 135–136
• Commuting, 44, 77, 139, 218
• Companion robots, 219–223, 238, 243, 248
• Competition, 46–47, 49
• Concealed handgun licenses (CHLs), 122–123
• Condominium boards, 75
• Conflict
  • avoidance of, 77, 98, 109–113, 220, 243
  • community and, 49–53, 61, 75–80
  • role of talk in resolving, 40, 51
• Congestion tax, 172
• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 224
• Consumerism, 58, 114, 181, 209, 242
• Continuity arguments, 28
• Conversation
  • apps to support, 199
  • effects of television on, 22, 110, 129
  • public, 120–123
  • shared meals and, 39, 111
  • as skilled practice, 110–111
  • third places and, 73, 80, 97
• Co-op boards, 78
• Cooperative business, 13, 88–90, 168, 231–233. See also Community manifesting, economically
• Corporate capitalism, 46–47. See also Barriers, posed by corporate opposition
• Cosleeping, 112–114, 190–193. See also Barriers, posed by expectations regarding sleep
• Crawford, John, 201
• Crawford, Matthew, 126
• Credit Union Membership Act, 166
• CrossFit, 96
• Cry-it-out method, 12, 63, 112–114, 190
• Culture, people as cognitive victims of their, 193
• Curro, Chris, 234
• Cyberasocials, 22, 28, 40, 213–215

• Danish Board of Technology, 225
• Davecat, 125
• Davis, Howard, 135
• Dead rule over living, ways in which, 236
• Decimation of inner cities, 25–26, 67–68. See also Urban renewal
• DeFilippis, James, 61
• Democracy
  • communitarian, 48–50
  • intelligent trial and error and, 224–231
  • Internet governance and, 176–177
  • religion and, 101
  • schooling and, 98–99, 178–180
  • social capital and, 6
  • strong, 59
  • technological change and, 25 (see also Intelligent trial and error; Technological, determinism; Technological, somnambulism)
  • tension between liberty and, 7
• Democratic schooling. See Democracy, schooling and
• Desertification and land prices, 140
• Diamond, Jared, 50–51, 114–115
• Digital detox, 121
• DIY, 89, 126
• Dominant frames, 142–145, 179, 200
• Donvan, John, 21
• Douglas, William O., 88
• Driverless cars, 215–219, 225
• Dr. Spock, 110
• Dudley-Roxbury Neighborhood, 97, 151–152
• Dunkelman, Marc, 3

• East Pasadena (California), 76, 146–147
• Economic localism, 47. See also Community manifesting, economically
• Economic multiplier, 88
• Economies of scale, 171, 178, 189
• Edmonton (Alberta), 173, 230
• Eixample (Spain), 145
• Embeddedness, 142–143
• Emerging church model, 182
• Energy cogeneration technology, 162
• EnergyGuide labels, 187
• Energy microgrid, 87, 160–161
• Ethic of management versus ethic of membership, 180
• Eugene (Oregon), 161
• Evergreen Cooperative, 90, 168, 251

• Facebook
  • continuity argument regarding, 28
  • as corporate gatekeeper to social belonging, 19, 94, 104
  • driverless cars and, 218
  • limitations of, 1, 8, 22, 33
  • net neutrality and, 177
  • networked life and, 2, 18, 28, 223
  • as supporting technological liberalism, 207
• Fairytale understanding of innovation, 133, 135
• Faneuil Hall Marketplace, 43
• Farmers’ markets, 20, 47
• Farm-to-School Program, 190
• Favelas, 68
• Federal Housing Administration, 149
• Feenberg, Andrew, 119
• Fight Club, 113
• Fischer, Claude, 4
• Fixer movement, 126
• Flammang, Janet, 39, 110–111
• Flexibility and inflexibility
  • in the collaborative economy, 90
  • intelligent trial and error and technological, 213–214, 217–218, 233, 236, 239
  • interpretive (see Interpretive flexibility)
  • of parental leave and work hours, 12, 112, 192–193
  • of psychocultural technologies and digital devices, 223
  • of technologies to local repair practices, 127
  • zoning and building codes and, 146, 148–149, 156, 161
• Flyvbjerg, Bent, 253
• Focal practices, 64, 108
• Focal things, 108
• Food
  • co-op (see Cooperative business)
  • deserts, 169
  • stamps, 164, 169, 188
• Food and Drug Administration, 221–222, 224–225
• Ford Pinto, 218
• Form-based codes, 148
• Fragmentation of social life
  • bar hopping and the, 74
  • conflict and the, 79, 204
  • by economic changes, 47
  • by networked infrastructure, 83–84
  • in networked societies, 1–3, 6–7, 18, 20
  • reciprocity and the, 39
  • religious enclaves and the, 100
  • urban form and the, 35–36, 44, 144
• Freedom. See Liberty
• Freie, John, 43–44, 100
• Frozen food lobby, 189
• Fukuoka (Japan), 109

• Gans, Herbert, 25, 35, 66–69, 72–74, 79, 247
• Garber, Judith, 61
• Gas taxes, 138, 217
• Gated community. See Community, gated
• Genetically modified crops, 217
• Ghettos, 120
• Gieryn, Thomas, 9
• Gift giving, 36–38
• Gillette, Howard, 65
• Globalization, 30
• Gloversville (New York), 232–234
• Good life, 5, 30, 36, 144, 217
• Google, 94, 177, 179, 216–217
• Governing mentality, 236
• Graeber, David, 38
• Granny flats. See Secondary suites
• Grant, Jill, 149
• Gray, Peter, 99
• Greedy marriages, 250
• Green chemistry, 234, 251
• Greenwich Village, 68, 72, 124
• Growth coalitions, 141

• Hampton, Keith, 1, 28
• Havrilesky, Heather, 96
• Hawaiian Electric Company, 162
• Hawking, Stephen J., 100
• Hearth, 108
• High rises, 68, 70, 145–146
• Hipsters, 52, 74
• Hobby Lobby, 183
• Hollands, Robert, 74
• Homeowners associations (HOA), 75, 149
• Hommels, Anique, 9, 142
• Hubbs, Nadine, 57
• Hydraulic fracturing, 225

• Ibeica (Spain), 83–84
• Ideal of civility, 61
• Ideal of community. See Community, idealization of
• Ikaria (Greece), 41
• Ills associated with modern living, 252
• Imbroscio, David, 30, 47, 104, 243
• Impact fees, 172
• Import substitution, 168–169
• Improvement districts, 76, 87, 155–156, 160, 171
• Indoor plumbing, 83–84, 159
• Infrastructure traps, 137
• Insurance, 102–103
• Intelligence of previous generation’s decisions, exaggeration of, 235
• Intelligent trial and error
  • already established technologies and, 234–236
  • defined, 212–215
  • in general, 12–14, 247
  • institutional design of, 224–228
  • as a set of organizational strategies, 229–234
  • steering emerging technologies and, 215–224
• Intergenerational ties, 116, 204–205
• Internet
  • communitarian alternatives to, 95
  • and intelligently steering, 213–215
  • liberal moral order of the, 93
  • limitations of, 93–95, 119
• Interpretive flexibility, 64, 80–81
• Interstate highway system, 25
• I’On, Mount Pleasant (South Carolina), 148

• Jacobs, Jane, 9, 68, 71–72, 74–75, 124
• Jefferson, Thomas, 236

• Kemmis, Daniel, 37, 49
• Kerala (India), 103
• Kirkman, Robert, 91, 151, 195
• Klinenberg, Eric, 4, 24, 30, 38, 101
• Klinger, Barbara, 117
• Kotatsu, 109
• Kristiansen, Hans W., 57
• Kroc Community Center, 97
• Kurzweil, Ray, 100
• Kusenbach, Margarethe, 70

• Land (Wales), 116, 194
• Land value capture, 171
• Lane, Robert, 19
• Lanza, Mike, 195
• Laundromats, 81, 85
• Learning while planning, 231
• Le Plateau-Mont-Royal (Quebec), 145
• Levittown (New York), 66–67, 69, 72–73, 156
• Levy, David, 221
• Lewis, C. S., 58
• Liberalism
  • as a moral order, 54–55, 100–101
  • philosophical, 29, 49, 54
  • technological, 29, 85, 104–105, 207
• Liberty
  • choice and, 54–55
  • in general, 5, 54–59
  • as networked autonomy, 84–85, 114–115
  • networked individualism as constraint on, 30
  • overvaluation of individual forms of, 7
• Lifestyle enclave, 3
• Limited lifespan of urban form, 157
• Limits of agency, 195, 223
• Lin, Patrick, 215
• Lindblom, Charles, 31, 225
• Little league, 98
• Living alone. See Solo dwelling
• Local economies, 87–91. See also Economic localism
• Locke, John, 39
• Logan, John R., 137
• London (England), 171–172
• Loneliness
  • evidence of increases in, 2
  • in general, 33, 56
  • Internet technologies and, 119
  • in networked societies, 8, 20
  • of seniors, 202
  • social approaches to resolving, 202–205
  • of stay-at-home parents, 8, 20, 69, 112–113, 116–117
  • talking and, 39
• Los Angeles (California), 70, 172
• Lynch, Kevin, 9

• MacIntyre, Alisdair, 49
• Maker spaces, 205
• Malone, Karen, 115
• Marglin, Stephen, 45–46
• Marom, Yotam, 227
• Marvin, Carolyn, 5
• McDonald’s, 164, 168
• Mercatus Center, 215
• Mesa del Sol (New Mexico), 230
• Mesh networks, 95, 175–177
• Mitcham, Carl, 84
• Mobility of capital, 131
• Modernization theory, 24
• Mohawk Harvest Co-op, 232–234
• Mollison, James, 113
• Molotch, Harvey L., 137
• Morozov, Evegeny, 223
• Mortgage interest tax deduction, 138–139
• Mortgages as biased toward suburbia, 139
• Move to Opportunity, 104
• Muir, Rick, 154
• Multigenerational homes, 203–204
• Mumford, Lewis, 77
• Myth(s)
  • communal harmony as, 50, 79–80, 110
  • communal homogeneity as, 58
  • of decline in organized religion, 100
  • of equality and national identity
  • of fiscal responsibility, 173–174
  • of high-rise construction increasing density, 145
  • legitimating, 157–158
  • networked community as, 26
  • of neutrality, 207
  • of progress, 5–6, 212, 237, 243 (see also Fairytale understanding of innovation)
  • regarding automation, 23, 221
  • of rugged individualism, 85, 131, 155, 190
  • of universal benefit from technological innovation, 216

• Nader, Ralph, 253
• Nakamura, Karen, 53
• Narcissism, 5, 98–99
• National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA), 229
• National Architectural Accreditation Board, 150
• National Rifle Association (NRA)
• National School Lunch Program, 189
• Naturalization of
  • the liberal self, 55, 113
  • networked individualism, 18, 22–24, 104, 113–114, 243
  • private living, 131
  • socially constructed realities, 17–18, 24–25, 55
  • the status quo, 25, 246
  • status quo urban form, 23, 135, 144–145
  • technological change, 24, 244–245
• Nazis and the Third Reich, 7, 245
• Netflix, 94, 177, 187
• Net neutrality, 177
• Netville study, 94, 215
• Networked community. See Networked individualism
• Networked individualism
  • enforced by suburbia, 66
  • freedom-enhancing, 4, 29
  • in general, 2, 4, 35–36
  • the Internet and, 118–119
  • liberal bias of, 29–30
  • marketlike character of, 19
  • naturalization of (see Naturalization of, networked individualism)
  • Oneida Community as a metaphor for, 241–243
  • relationship between phenomenon and theory of, 10, 25–26
  • relative thinness of, 59–60
  • sociopolitically accomplished, 9–10, 207–208
  • sociotechnically accomplished, 11, 13, 129–132, 241–244
  • winners and losers of, 7, 10, 18–22, 125, 246
• Networked power, 104–105
• Nevarez, Leonard, 18
• New urbanism, 13, 71, 148, 230
• New York City, 67, 124
• New York Stock Exchange, 165
• New York Times, 96
• Nisbet, Robert, 7, 48
• Non-places, 43
• Nonprofit tax exemptions, 182–183
• North, Peter, 61
• November Project, 96

• Occupy Wall Street, 227
• Office of Technology Assessment, 224
• Oldenburg, Ray, 23, 25, 40, 66, 250
• Oliver, Eric J., 118
• Oneida Community, 241–243
• Open-source software, 205
• Ostrom, Elinor, 49

• Panglossian views, 1, 133
• Papua New Guinea, 50–51, 111, 114–115
• Parasocial relationships, 116, 118. See also Pseudocommunity
• Parent Teacher Association (PTA), 98, 178
• Parking, 76, 138, 146–147
• Peak pricing, 197
• Permissionless innovation, 216, 236
• Persistent traditions, 145–146
• Personalistic ethos, 111. See also Therapeutic contractualism or individualism
• Physical recreation, 96–98
• Picton (Ontario), 85
• Pinker, Susan, 19
• Pioneer Co-op, 231–233
• Pleasantville, 55–56
• Police
  • culture, 200 (see also Barriers, posed by warrior cop culture)
  • housing project, 124, 200–201
  • inefficacy of, 123 (see also Community’s relationship to, policing)
• Political parties, 103
• Political talk. See Conflict, role of talk in resolving
• Politics
  • and community (see Community manifesting, politically; Democracy)
  • definition of, 18
• Ponzi schemes, 137
• Pornography, 220
• Portland (Oregon), 171
• Postman, Neil, 211
• Presbyterianism, 101
• Pressman, Norman, 197
• Privacy. See Privatism; Thick community, privacy and
• Private bedrooms, 113
• Privatism, 109, 113, 118, 120–121
• Privileged position of business, 225
• Progress narratives, 228, 236. See also Myth(s), of progress
• Project housing, 70, 78, 85, 124, 169
• Property tax revenue sharing, 165–166
• Prosocial
  • apps, 199
  • behavior, 37, 46–47
• Pruitt-Igoe project, 70
• Pseudocommunity, 43
• Psychocultural
  • goods, 211, 247
  • risk, 213, 219–224
  • technologies, 113
• Pub crawling, 73
• Public
  • characters, 72, 87
  • house, 202
  • procurement policies, 151
• Putnam, Robert, 3–4, 14, 18, 25, 37, 77

• Quartier Vauban. See Vauban (Germany)
• Quebec (Canada), 167

• Racism, 14, 42, 67, 201–202
• Rainie, Lee, 4, 8, 23–24
• Rasmussen, Stu, 58
• Reciprocity, 36–38
• Reconstructivism, 1, 134, 247
• Regulatory capture, 180, 184, 225
• REI, 88
• Religion, 99–102
• Religious individualism, 181–182
• Renewable energy, 37–38, 87, 160, 231, 250–251
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 169
• Residential mobility’s effect on community, 47, 131
• Responsible innovation, 252. See also Intelligent trial and error
• Reverse adaptation, 1–2, 12, 25–30
• Rheingold, Howard, 40
• Rhetorical communion, 70. See also Community, rhetorical creation of
• Roads and highways, 92, 138, 234–235
• Roman Catholic Church, 101
• Room sharing, 51–52
• Roots of Empathy, 99
• Rushkoff, Douglas, 177

• Saddleback Church, 100
• Sadowski, Jathan, 273
• Salvation Army, 97
• Sandel, Michael, 29, 52
• Santa Monica (California), 172
• Saranac Lake (New York), 169
• Sarewitz, Daniel, 206
• Scherzer, Kenneth, 67
• Schlesinger, Arthur, 107
• Scholarship
  • as helping to socially construct reality, 17
  • as partisan, 9–10, 30–31, 246
  • for public benefit, 9–10, 248–249, 252–253
  • as value-laden, 27–29
• Schooling, 98–99
• Schor, Juliet, 250
• Science and technology studies, 8–10, 17, 133–134, 237–238, 247, 252–254
• Science Channel, 237
• Scientistic framing. See Technocratic, framing of controversies
• Sclove, Richard, 64–65, 83
• Seattle (Washington), 174
• Secondary suites, 203
• Self governance. See Democracy
• Self-reliance, 112–113, 123
• Selinger, Evan, 237
• Sennett, Richard, 58
• Sharing economy, 47–48, 90–91
• Shoup, Donald, 76, 138, 146
• Shove, Elizabeth, 186
• Siegel, Lee, 213
• Simmel, George, 35
• Skocpol, Theda, 180
• Skype, 40
• Slow Food, 111
• Smartphones, 46, 63, 121, 207
• Smokestack chasing, 165, 228
• Social capital, 3, 6, 37, 72. See also Democracy, social capital and; Suburbia, social capital and
• Social construction, 17, 41–43, 52, 247, 253
• Social economy, 167
• Social isolation, 53, 73–75, 109–113, 119–120, 185–187. See also Suburbia, physical and social isolation in
• Sociality
  • marketlike understanding of, 19 (see also Social networks, entrepreneurial operation of)
  • as private responsibility, 8, 19, 122, 222
• Social movements, 103, 111, 226–228
• Social networks
  • entrepreneurial operation of, 19, 21, 73
  • limitations of, 1, 7–8, 19
  • versus communal webs, 83, 104
• Social science. See Scholarship
• Social scientists as privileged, 29, 252–254
• Social ties, networked versus thick communitarian, 4. See also Thick community, versus thin community
• Sociotechnical system(s)
  • as constructing everyday life, 13
  • dependence on, 84–85
  • devices and gadgets as components of larger, 107, 245
  • as influencing people’s worldviews, 64, 84–85, 104
  • policing as a, 201
  • urban form as built into larger, 77
• Sodexo, 169
• SolarCity, 250
• Solo dwelling, 4, 27, 30, 113
• Song, Felicia Wu, 93
• Spirituality. See Religion
• Split-level taxation, 137–138. See also Land value capture
• Sports. See Community’s relationship to, sports
• St. Paul, Minnesota, 162
• Stranger danger
  • allayed by sports “lifeguards” and adventure playgrounds, 129, 181
  • concealed handgun license training and, 123
  • loss of youth autonomy and, 67, 75, 190, 193–195
  • suburbia and, 155
• Stroud, Angela, 122
• STS. See Science and technology studies
• Subtraction stories, 55–56
• Suburbia
  • barriers to thick community in, 44, 66, 69
  • community and, 247
  • consumer choice and, 135–136
  • as a contrived form of community, 43, 69
  • driverless cars and, 216
  • homogeneity of, 44, 77
  • liberal moral order and, 109, 111, 131, 243
  • modern downtowns as low-density
  • obduracy of, 142–151
  • physical and social isolation in, 26, 41, 69 (see also Privatism)
  • sense of community and, 44
  • social capital and, 44, 72
  • subsidization of, 25–26, 136–141
• Sudbury school model, 99, 179–180
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), 191
• Sunday Assembly, 102
• Sunset provisions, 236
• Survival prepping, 123
• Systematicity of social ties, 34–36, 66, 74–76, 93, 96

• Take back laws, 206
• TaskRabbit, 105
• Tax incremental financing (TIF), 141
• Taxpayer subsidy, 136–139, 141, 164–165, 188–189
• Taylor, Charles, 55
• Technical malpractice insurance, 219
• Technocratic
  • framing of controversies, 215–218, 221–222
  • thinking, 236–237
• Technological
  • determinism, 23, 212, 215–216, 245
  • device, 86, 108
  • fatalism, 5
  • lock-in, 6, 244
  • politics (see Technology, as legislation)
  • progress narrative (see Progress narratives)
  • retreats from community, 122–126
  • risk, 12, 211
  • sleepwalking (see Technological, somnambulism)
  • somnambulism, 6, 15, 25, 244
• Technological momentum
  • bus rapid transit as mechanism for building, 173
  • of gated community model of churches, 182
  • maintained by zoning and codes, 147–149
  • of modern schooling, 99, 178
  • of networked individualism, 14
  • of network technologies, 28
  • of outdated pediatric wisdom, 190
  • of sociotechnical status quo, 133, 244
  • of sprawl and automobility, 25, 142, 156, 200, 208, 218
• Technological obduracy
  • of academic practices, 253
  • allowing dead to rule over living, 236
  • bureaucracy as a kind of, 225
  • of contemporary schooling, 178
  • continued by routinization of maintenance, 234–235
  • housing project police as model for sidestepping, 201
  • of status quo, 11, 133, 184
  • urban, 9, 142–153, 208
• Technologies, seductive
  • digital, 121–122
  • domestic, 109, 117
  • in general, 64, 81, 128
  • urban, 69, 71, 72
• Technology
  • the Amish and, 226–228
  • antisocial, 121
  • appropriate, 127
  • barriers to communitarian, 11–12, 207–209
  • communitarian, 11
  • as a form of life, 22, 64, 109
  • as legislation, 18, 22–25, 63–64, 91
  • as more than just devices, 11
  • as non-neutral, 64, 129
  • resistance to change (see Technological obduracy)
  • as a social dilemma, 128
  • as sociotechnical system, 63, 107 (see also Sociotechnical system[s])
• Tele-cocooning. See Cocooning, public
• Television
  • decline of civic participation and, 116–117
  • domestic interaction and, 110
  • as an ethical choice, 129
  • fear-oriented, 193
  • in general, 22, 43, 101, 187
  • lessening draw of, 196
• Thatcher, Margaret, 170
• Therapeutic contractualism or individualism, 38–39, 93, 113
• Thick community
  • barriers to (see Barriers)
  • benefits of, 6–7, 19
  • incompatibility with contemporary economics, 45–46
  • integration of members in, 21, 41, 53
  • privacy and, 41
  • versus thin community, 10–11, 33
• Thick familial life, 250
• Thin community. See Thick community, versus thin community
• Third places
  • in general, 73, 97 (see also Barriers to communitarian, third places)
  • talking and, 40 (see also Conversation, third places and)
  • volunteering and, 202
• Thompson, Paul, 49–50
• Tönnies, Ferdinand, 35
• Tool libraries, 89, 205–206
• Toyota, 211, 218
• Traditional societies, 37–38, 42, 45, 50–52
• Tragedy of the commons, 176–177
• Transition Town movement, 209
• Transportation networks, 91–92, 170–175
• Triplett, Donald, 21
• Troy (New York), 38, 102, 168–169, 232–233
• Tufekci, Zeynep, 28, 222
• Turkle, Sherry, 111, 122, 220–222
• Twin Cities (Minnesota), 165
• Twitter, 165

• Uber, 90, 95, 105
• Umbach, Fritz, 124
• Unintended consequences of
  • companion robots, 221
  • driverless cars, 216, 219
  • technological innovation and change, 83, 211, 238
  • urban form, 65
• Unions, 167
• United Postal Service (UPS), 174
• Urban highway removal, 144
• Urban renewal, 67, 74, 156
• Utah’s light rail expansion, 174

• Vauban (Germany)
  • as model for communitarian neighborhood design, 78, 92, 147, 152–153
  • as trial-and-error urbanism, 13, 230–231
• Verbeek, Peter-Paul, 64
• Vickery, William, 171
• Village wells, 83–84
• Villa Victoria, 74
• Vioxx, 222
• Virtual communities
  • commitment required by (see Commitment, virtual communities’ limited demands for)
  • in general, 40, 45
  • marginalized populations and, 119–120

• Wajcman, Judy, 253
• Wal-Mart
  • civic decline and, 88
  • cooperative department stores as alternative to, 168
  • exemplifying networked power, 104–105
  • John Crawford’s shooting in a, 201
  • shopping as a form of life, 64
  • subsidized by status quo urban design and policy, 164, 169
• Washington Metro, 172
• Wawra, Walt, 122
• Weingartner, Charles, 211
• Wellman, Barry, 3, 4, 8, 23–24, 28, 35–36
• West End, Boston, 35, 68, 74
• Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, 168
• Whyte, William, 68
• Wi-Fi, lessening draw of, 198
• Wildpoldsried (Germany), 86
• Wilk, Richard, 45
• Williamson, Thad, 30, 47
• Willson, Michelle, 25–26
• Winner, Langdon, 11, 64, 237–239
• Wired Magazine, 237
• Woodhouse, Edward, 206, 211, 225
• Work hours, 131, 192, 253
• Wray (England), 95

• Xcel Energy, 162

• Young, Iris M., 61
• Youth autonomy, 114–116, 127, 190–195
• YouTube, 47, 110, 206

• Zucker, Caren, 21