![]() In some cases, social infrastructure can also be lifesaving, Klinenberg said, sharing research from Chicago that was conducted following a devastating heat wave in 1995 that killed hundreds of city residents. These spaces are crucial, Klinenberg argues, for bridging divides and safeguarding the values of democracy. His book examines more broadly how our "social infrastructure" of shared spaces-not only libraries, but also parks, playgrounds, gardens, child care centers, churches, and synagogues-help us form some of our most significant and abiding connections. Klinenberg, a sociology professor at New York University and director of its Institute for Public Knowledge, explored this vision in his latest book, Palaces for the People, which takes its title from a phrase made famous by Carnegie. The scholar and author said he became "hooked" on libraries through frequent visits to a branch in the Lower East Side of Manhattan that was originally designed by Andrew Carnegie, who envisioned libraries as a "reprieve from the factories and tenements and crowded conditions of neighborhood," Klinenberg said. ![]() ![]() ![]() "They would get the world's biggest straitjacket and wrap us all up in it," Klinenberg said during a talk at Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday evening sponsored by the university's Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute. ![]()
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