Sympathetic book, tracing signs of hope in Dutch society with respect to new design initiatives for building and farming, architecture of landscapes and cities. This all for the greater good: restoring connection among people.
The author is a renowned journalist and this book offers an overview of current developments. Worth reading, though I had read about almost all of it before, in magazines and newspapers. The author shows herself in her writing a great connector, and she has an impressive network; and indeed, by writing about this network she connects it with readers, thus enlargening it and generating further potential for it. Perhaps such a networking function is, indeed, an often overlooked function of journalism. It is at least a function that I myself was not automatically aware of.
Though the author is eloquent and the read is fluent, and the text is at times quite informative, there is not much of a wider sociological interpretation, and this made the book a bit less interesting to me. And, of course, one should not expect that from a journalistic account like this.