A Neighborhood Improvement Journal - Summer 2009

Features

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  Not Your Grandmother's Library
  A library is often seen as a kind of community center in many neighborhoods…hosting meetings and events while providing a variety of valuable resources. There are some aspects of society’s ills, however, which have come to threaten many libraries’ abilities to consistently serve such lofty purposes.
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  Neighborhood Activism - for the Less Active
  Being active in the neighborhood and contributing to community, need not come only by way of attending meetings and collecting signatures on petitions. A variety of ways are listed in which even the less organizationally inclined can help improve their neighborhood.
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  Food with Friends
  Human comfort and support can’t get much more basic than the process of mutually feeding each other. One Roanoke, VA neighborhood has developed this notion into an ongoing community event…designed to build community…in the tastiest way possible.
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  Neighborhood Tour - Clarendon neighborhood, Allington, Virginia
  A visual tour of the Clarendon Neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia

Cover Photo

A home in the Willows Neighborhood, Menlo Park, California.