Beyond Common Ground: The Places That Hold Us Together

What if some of society’s biggest challenges—from climate change and crime to terrorism and social fragmentation—could be addressed not with more seawalls, prisons, and other forms of “gray infrastructure,” but by investing in the places and systems that bring people together? In the new book Beyond Common Ground , political scientist Rabbi Dr. Daniel Aldrich makes the case for social infrastructure: the physical and virtual spaces that foster connection, trust, and collective action, from…