{"product_id":"main-street-mindy-thompson-fullilove-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 fl穗euse in Gay Paree, sip 軋y 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 all馥, 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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mindy Thompson Fullilove\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1613321260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781613321263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Village Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.94d","brand":"Mindy Thompson Fullilove","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044251300095,"sku":"9781613321263","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_97f43d2f-c24e-41c0-a92b-182137f83dc3.jpg?v=1684971782","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/main-street-mindy-thompson-fullilove-9781613321263","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}