Recent articles in the New York Times (“ To Restore Civil Society, Start With the Library”) and the Atlantic (“ Worry Less About Crumbling Roads, More About Crumbling Libraries”), and an excerpt from the book accompanied by a photo essay in Slate (“ The Secret Life of Libraries”), have contributed to the conversation as well. Libraries-Andrew Carnegie’s “palaces for the people”-are chief among the building blocks of what Klinenberg terms “social infrastructure”: places where people gather, bonds form, and communities are strengthened. Sociologist Eric Klinenberg’s newest book, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Crown), suggests that the key to a more equitable society may lie in our shared spaces.
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