People have been thinking about the best ways to build, transform and sustain communities for a while. Some of the ones we found are:
- Community: The structure of belonging by Peter Block
- Tribe by Sebastian Junger
- Asset Based Community Development by Cormac Russell
- Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
- Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World by Jennie Allen
- Corporate Cultures and Performance by James Heskett and John Kotter
- In the Name of Identity: Violence and the need to belong by Amin Maalouf
- How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas by David Bornstein
- The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille
- Neighbour Power by Jim Diers
- Social Choice and Individual Values by Kenneth Arrow
- Culture is our Business by Marshall McLuhan
- Building Successful Online Communities by Robert Kraut, Paul Resnick and others
- Cultural Evolution by Ronald Inglehart
- Community Building on the Web by Amy Jo Kim
- Freedom Rising by Christian Welzel
- The Role of Social Capital in Development: An Empirical Assessment” by Christian Grootaert and Thierry Van Bastelaer
- Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
- The Art of Community by Charles Vogl
- Beyond Culture by Edward Hall
- When Cultures Collide by Richard Lewis
- The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan
- The Careless Society: Community and its Counterfeits by John McKnight and John Kretzmann
- Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets by John Kretzmann and John McKnight
See also: Individual Authors and their books