August 3, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
NEW BOOKS
Edens Lost and Found: How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities, by Harry Wiland and Dale Bell, follows two film producers in Santa Monica, Calif., and the several years they spent documenting the efforts of community leaders and other people nationwide to improve their urban neighborhoods. A four-part miniseries, Edens Lost and Found, resulted from the project and was broadcast on PBS; this book serves as a companion to that television program. Chapters describe community-development work in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Seattle, each of which was the focus of an installment in the series. The book comes with a CD-ROM that includes the episodes filmed in Chicago and Philadelphia.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing, P.O. Box 428, 85 North Main Street, Suite 120, White River Junction, Vt. 05001; (802) 295-6300; fax (802) 295-6444; http://www.chelseagreen.com; 285 pages; $40; ISBN 1-931498-89-X.
