Published on August 14, 2019
Season six of the Seattle Growth Podcast, produced by UW Foster School of Business professor of marketing Jeff Shulman, has explored the many ways that Seattleites are building or finding a sense of community in a city that is growing and changing so rapidly.
Episode 6.10 looks at efforts to build community within, well, communities. Neighborhoods of Seattle. Two guests offer perspectives from different neighborhoods about growth, change and the importance of community.
Greg Lewis, a former All-America running back who was a key to the Washington Huskies’ victory at the 1991 Rose Bowl and won the inaugural Doak Walker Award, shares his efforts to foster a sense of community in Seattle’s Central District today. Lewis even explains how the experience of stepping onto the field at the Rose Bowl compares to the work he is doing with the local YMCA.
And Cecile Andrews, author of Slow is Beautiful, Circle of Simplicity and Less is More, discusses “simplicity circles” and the work she is doing to bring together small groups for conversation in an area of northwest Seattle known as “PhinneyWood.”
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Originally written by Ed Kromer for the Foster Blog.