Good Places for All (Calvin Shorts)

Authors

• Mark D. Bjelland, Calvin UniversityFollow

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Description

This short book invites readers into a deeper understanding of cities and suburbs and the challenges they face. Because places play such an important role in human well-being, loving our neighbors includes caring for and cultivating good places for all. Despite their great prosperity, North American communities are beset with challenges: fiscal crises, concentrated poverty, fragmentation and division, failing schools, unaffordable housing, and lack of community feeling. Good Places combines a biblical framework with an exploration of how cities, neighborhoods, housing markets, and transportation systems work. Readers will find themselves challenged to extend Christian hospitality beyond the walls of their private homes into zoning codes, local politics, neighborhood associations, faith-based housing providers, and real estate development.

Publication Date

2019

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Religion | Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Recommended Citation

Bjelland, Mark D., "Good Places for All (Calvin Shorts)" (2019). Calvin Press. 17.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/calvinpress/17