Part One: What Community Is and Why We Need It -- A Return to Community -- But not the Kind Our Grandparents Knew -- How Creating Community Can Enrich -- Even Prolong -- Your Life -- Getting Started: Simpler Than You Think -- Part Two: Community without Cohabitation: You Don't Have to Move in Together to Enjoy Mutual Support -- Creating Community Among Family and Friends -- When Family and Friends Are Not Enough: Finding a Support Group -- Turning Neighborhoods and Cities into Communities -- The Workplace as Community -- Electronic Communities -- Part Three: New Ways of Living Together -- New Options in Residence Sharing -- Alternations to the Retirement Home -- Visionary Residential Communities: R & D Centers for Society -- Part Four: Starter Kit: A Map, Some Basic Tools, and a Few Warnings -- Coming Together, Growing, and Parting: Natural Phases in Community Life -- Becoming Whole: Embracing the Shadow Side of Community -- Communicating -- In Meetings, in Groups, and One to One -- Making Decisions and Governing -- Working with Conflict -- Celebrating and Renewing Community.
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