Mike Lanza
Autor de Playborhood: Turn Your Neighborhood Into a Place for Play
Obras de Mike Lanza
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Menlo Park, California, USA
- Educación
- Stanford University
- Ocupaciones
- software entrepreneur
Miembros
Reseñas
Playborhood: Turn Your Neighborhood Into a Place… por Mike Lanza
I agreed with much of what Lanza says in his book, but even I found him too strident at times. If I didn't agree with so much, I think I would have not finished the book! The book gets a fourth star from me because I enjoyed his descriptions of his growing up, and it spurred me to think a lot about my childhood. I grew up in a "playborhood," and this book did get me to think about the elements that made it such a good place to grow up.
I've long subscribed to Mike Lanza's blog in my RSS feed and had been really excited to read his book . . . so much so that I ordered my own copy upon discovering that the library had not ordered it. The ideas behind the playborhood philosophy rock and are ones we have as a family embraced (though we have a broader sense of "community" in terms of who constitutes our "neighborhood"), but I found the tone in Lanza's call to action really off-putting. He came across as aggressive and controlling both in terms of dealing with his neighbors and with his own children's views and so-called "free play." I was disappointed in the read as a result . . . Definitely not as inspiring as Richard Louv.… (más)
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- Obras
- 1
- Miembros
- 24
- Popularidad
- #522,742
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 1