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The Green Grass of Home

Summary/Abstract: The project „Together at Foisor” has brought an experiment of community development in the area which gave its name, and it represents the beginning of a long term process, in which, hopefully, in the time the local authorities will be involved together with NGO’s. For the time being the success of this project can be measured less in quantifiable results and more in what is usually named ‘best practice’. Which is not at all little. This article represents a personal point of view on the necessity to extend and to deepen this experiment and on a possible way of community life in a well-known and architecturally valuable urban milieu in Bucharest. We have to mention that a significant number of persons live by the Foisor, people who were born and lived surrounded by the same neighborhood, and the sadly remembered demolitions did not affect the district too much. At the same time, we have to remark the involvement of the women in the community development, their special role as guardians of traditional values and also of bringing up the new things in the life of the family and of the community. In this context, the Society for Feminist Analysis AnA makes a big step forward in building a real partnership and a durable dialog among all the actors involved in everyday life of the area.

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