National Civic Review articles from March 1997

National Civic Review archives from March 1997

Note from the president. (National Civic League President Christopher T. Gates on healthy communities)
March 22, 1997... Last spring I had the honor of accepting the 1996 World Health Day Award for the National Civic League's (NCL's) efforts to promote healthier communities nationwide. The award was one of three awards presented to leaders of the healthy...

Introduction. (healthy communities)
March 22, 1997... All revolutions begin in the mind before they begin in the streets. - John Adams From Anchorage to Burlington and from Columbus to Dallas a quiet movement is growing in this country. The goal is ambitious: to achieve radical, measurable...

Healthy cities and communities: past, present, and future.
March 22, 1997... The concept of a healthy city or community has grown from a small European project to a worldwide movement in the past ten years, but it did not emerge in a vacuum. There is a long tradition of attempts to improve the health of cities and their...

Raising the bar: bringing accountability to health care.
March 22, 1997... It is almost fatiguing to think about the present state of health care in this country. The jumble of positioning, self-interests, conflicting approaches, and fuzzy goals appears to have mired us in a situation in which real progress is not only...

In search of new patterns: profiles of two emerging healthy communities. (Healthy Mountain Communities in Roaring Fork Valley and Healthy Community Initiative of Greater Orlando, FL)
March 22, 1997... The country needs, and unless I mistake, the country demands, bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - Franklin Delano...

Community indicators and healthy communities.
March 22, 1997... A significant trend is spreading rapidly across the United States and around the world. Simply put - though not simple in practice - communities from Farmington, Maine, to Los Angeles, California, are using indicators to assess their well-being...

Beyond economics: healthy communities and healthy economies.
March 22, 1997... Car crashes are good for the economy - by traditional measurements. Ambulance companies make money from them, emergency medical technicians pick up overtime. So do health care workers, body-and-fender shops, car dealerships and car makers,...

Implementing the vision: growing a healthy communities initiative.
March 22, 1997... When Delaware County, Indiana, embarked on its healthy communities planning process, community leaders worried that the effort would simply end up as another study on a shelf, gathering dust. One steering committee member cautioned that if people...

Searching for healthy communities: can search conferences help our communities get healthy stay that way?
March 22, 1997... Few who are familiar with the tiny community of Crestone, Colorado, would have believed that 148 of its fiercely independent residents would agree to give up an entire weekend to participate in a planning session about their collective future....

Leadership in American communities.
March 22, 1997... There is a big change taking place in the world of politics. All over America, the focus of political action is shifting from the large P politics of state and national elections, to the small p politics of local and regional communities. This...

California's healthy cities: governance in action.
March 22, 1997... Political columnist Dan Walters has dubbed California the most complex society on the planet. One-third of the total U.S. immigrant population settles there, and the state's widening gap between the rich and poor is the highest in the country....

Building America: The Democratic Promise of Public Work.
March 22, 1997... If race and poverty were the defining issues of the 1960s, feminism and ecology were probably the burning issues of the 1970s. The hot topic of the 1990s, at least among an increasing number of academics, journalists, and political leaders, seems...

Characteristics of the community renewal movement.(The Culture Renewal, part 2)
March 22, 1997... Editor's Note: This is the second of a two-part article on signs of community renewal underway across America. In the first part, the author examined signs of renewal in our neighborhoods, our communications, our workplaces, and our charitable...