A nation of strangers
| Main Author: | Packard, Vance, 1914-1996, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
McKay,
[1972]
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| Physical Description: |
xiv, 368 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- A society of torn roots
- Towns for company gypsies
- Migrating firms, and the towns they invade
- The three-shift towns
- Staging areas for modern nomads
- Life on the nuclear frontier
- Collegiate breeding grounds for transients
- The snowbirds of centrifugal families
- Ethnic churning in people-imploding cities
- And three novel forms of urban sprawl
- What it means to transplant today's family
- On rebuilding a social circle
- New institutions to serve high-mobiles
- The arguments for a high-mobile society
- Curious life styles of loosely rooted people
- Two towns: a comparison in personal relations
- Proneness to malaise of loosely rooted people
- Impact on the children
- People turnover and community demoralization
- On recovering our sense of continuity
- New approaches to a sense of community
- Are one-layer communities the answer?
- New towns, and a bold test of neighborliness.