Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Who Needs Community Anyway? -- Part I In Search of Community -- 1 Faking Civil Society -- 2 A Green Unpleasant Land -- 3 Public Space: Designing-in Community -- Part II Constructing Communities -- 4 New New Urbanism -- 5 Density Versus Sprawl -- 6 Salvation by Brick? The Life and Death of British Communities -- Part III Communities in Flux -- 7 Strictly Personal: The Working Class Confi ned to Community -- 8 Virtual Communities Versus Political Realities -- 9 Minorities, Multiculturalism and the Metropolitan Experience -- 10 From Little Italy to Big America -- 11 Rio on Galway: Immigration and Ireland -- Part IV Undermining Communities -- 12 Communities on the Couch -- 13 Youthful Misbehaviour or Adult Traumas? -- 14 Parish Pump Politics -- Conclusion: A Death Greatly Exaggerated -- Contributors -- Index.