Includes index.

Contents: Introduction: Civilizing the city: Trends shaping the evolution of community : The Paradox and promise of community -- Economic community and social investment -- The Future-capability of society -- How boomers, churches, and entrepreneurs can transform society -- The Values of community : The Ideal community -- Wisdom as capital in prosperous communities -- Diversity in community -- Lessons from Seagram Ashram -- The Impact of new communications technology: Communications technology in dynamic organizational communities -- Global communications and communities -- Virtual communities -- Creating communites in organizations -- Building community in the workplace -- Managing for results in the community of future -- Six practices for creating communities fof value, not proximity -- Opportunities in the global economy -- Strengthening the social fabric : The Dream that lies before us -- High-tech-inner-city community development -- Twenty-first century leadership in the African American community -- Gaining equal access to economic power -- The New American identity -- Five building blocks for successful communities -- Global dimensions of community : Our children are community of the future -- Community in the third and fourth worlds -- Anticipating the community of future -- Afterword.