Land-use experts are convinced that three different forms of connectedness exist: kinship with all life; partnership with working landscapes & the sense of community usual in villages & urban neighborhoods & they can be brought back to even the most densely settled districts, old & new.
But missing from them was the sort of connectedness to a more collective form of unrest, which seems to have linked recent incidents, even if only in theory.
Theda Skocpol, a Harvard sociologist, says that beyond the community, advocacy groups -- organizations like the Sierra Club, the Children's Defense Fund, the American Association of Retired Persons -- have become a new form of social connectedness.
Whether it's via Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn, e-mail or some other form of Internet connectedness, the latest headlines from your super-successful frenemy from high school, the boss who fired you and the awful 14-year-old boy your daughter is in love with are now in your face.
In this algorithm, two kinds of local spatial attractions are considered in the functional form of membership connectedness and the required seeds can be selected automatically.
This building evokes another kind of connectedness, the links between buildings that represent contemporary urban intelligence.
This is the kind of connectedness we've experienced here from the beginning.
Some forms of social connectedness such as neighboring have declined, as has confidence in government, while participation in organized religion has softened.
He has written 14 books, including the best-selling "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community," and more recently "Better Together: Restoring the American Community," a study of promising new forms of social connectedness.
It seems that our nature is so formed that we need a feeling of connectedness with the universe.
