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[bewellr]

Prevention can Be Harmful

Prevention and problem elimination can be harmful. Learn how taking actions to gain place attachment can create benefits for everyone and everything.

As noted in the Prevention Can’t Work and Problems are Irrelevant! post, a prevention and problem focus is not a path to improvement. I only noted that prevention and problem elimination does not improve, however some research has now demonstrated that prevention efforts can be harmful. In other words, prevention effors can actually makes things worse than if nothing was done at all. The Scared…

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[james-master]

Review of 'This is Where You Belong'

Do you love where you live? If you don't, then check out This is Where You Belong by Melody Warnick. #bookreview #book #thisiswhereyoubelong

Have you ever moved to a city or town and it didn’t feel like you were at home? Author and Freelance Journalist Melody Warnick had that feeling when she and her family moved to Blacksburg, Virginia. After feeling like she’d made a mistake in moving, she had epiphany after interviewing a lady in West Virginia that has spent all her life in the same place. “I began to wonder if in all these years…

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[urbanplanningreads]

The Porch Puzzle by Curbed

[aftertigers]

Resilience stresses tear at the social structure of a city, but so quietly, like termites gnawing at the woodwork, that you don't notice until your city is falling down around your ears. Stresses make you fearful; over time, they can make you hate where you live.

This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live