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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Why this matters here
Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone documents declining U.S. civic engagement and social capital and links denser patterns of participation and mutual reliance to healthier community outcomes over time. How Trust Forms uses that cumulative ordinary participation for outcomes no one owns: neighborhoods survive less by singular heroes than by reliance that accumulated into something durable.
