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| Watch your Neighbors, or See Them? |
| By jjie.org - John Lash |
| Published: 07/26/2013 |
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The suburban street where I have lived the past two years has about 45 houses, not counting cross streets and cul-de-sacs. I imagine that there are about 250 folks in these houses. I see families driving down the street and couples walking their dogs. I think I have met about 12 of them. That’s not many out of 250. Six of those live next door or across the street. If someone who didn’t live there was walking down the street or sitting in a driveway I would have no way of knowing. We have a neighborhood watch sign, but I don’t think anyone is on patrol or doing anything remotely organized. It’s funny, considering that I speak to people often about community based conflict transformation, restorative justice and how they can be more involved in settling their own problems. I attribute the lack of physical community in my own life, at least in large part, to architecture, particularly suburban development. Each house is it’s own little manor, with clear cut boundaries and no real common spaces. We don’t even have sidewalks. Of course we don’t have many conflicts either, which is terrific, but I might be willing to have a few in exchange for some neighborly fellowship. Read More. |
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