{"product_id":"going-public-9781400076499","title":"Going Public","description":"Urban decay can sap the determination—not to mention the soul—of anyone who experiences   it.  But there are forces that can and do reverse it.  They are not spectators, or   critics, or occasional demonstrators. They are groups of citizens, encouraged and   trained to take power with dignity and creativity and unrelenting determination,   and to make it work for them, day by day, month by month, and year to year. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For   more than twenty-five years, Michael Gecan has been a professional organizer with   Industrial Areas Foundation, which has trained thousands of little-known community   groups from Brownsville, Texas, to Brownsville, Brooklyn. Having grown up witnessing   at close range the destructive effects of political patronage on powerless, disenfranchised   Chicago communities, Gecan knows from experience that strong relationships in the   public sphere and sustained and disciplined organizing can spark the public and private   alchemy necessary to achieve sidewalks, parks, schools, housing--and the collective   renewal that results. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Full of good advice and entertaining accounts of success,   \u003ci\u003eGoing Public\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of those who, says Gecan, “succeed in unexpected ways and   in unexpected places.”","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62341534941571,"sku":"9781400076499","price":17.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9781400076499.jpg?v=1786149823","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/going-public-9781400076499","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}