ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the several kinds of participation in the urban environment that can together be considered aspects of the urban community movement. It deals with both workplace and the neighborhood points up a fundamental problem in the urban society-the separation of work and home. It then uses the "public household" concept to sharpen the trends that are under way, trends toward reciprocity in relations involving money, emotions, and the means of distribution and production, and a growing concern over the quality of products are pressured to use. The chapter considers the wider scale and the powers of separation that are so deeply embedded in the society and culture. It then argues that the large-scale corporate ordering of society and landscape through technology and the mass media has been the major force weakening the sense of place and the awareness of communities.
