Raymond Lorenzo is Community-based City Planner (Harvard GSD, 1975) with considerable experience in university teaching. These have included the City University of New York Graduate School, The Open University and various Italian Universities. At present, he teaches “Place Making and Sustainable Communities” at The Umbra Institute, American Study Abroad, in Perugia Italy.

• Part 1. A New Home … awakening: The Little Child - Microcosm in Expansion … asking why.- The Old Man - Getting grounded … remembering why.- Part 2. A New Street … exploring and bonding: The Child - Free play, friendship and learning.- The Old Man - Getting around … recovering commitment.- Part 3. A New Community … encountering, reflecting and taking part: The Boy - Growing up and out into ‘a world beyond the hood’.- Part 4. A New World … investigating, visioning, engaging and creating: The Young Man walking in the Shadows.- The Old Man reaching for the Light.- Postscript.-  Index.

Raymond Lorenzo is Community-based City Planner (Harvard GSD, 1975) with considerable experience in university teaching. These have included the City University of New York Graduate School, The Open University and various Italian Universities. At present, he teaches “Place Making and Sustainable Communities” at The Umbra Institute, American Study Abroad, in Perugia Italy.

• Part 1. A New Home … awakening: The Little Child - Microcosm in Expansion … asking why.- The Old Man - Getting grounded … remembering why.- Part 2. A New Street … exploring and bonding: The Child - Free play, friendship and learning.- The Old Man - Getting around … recovering commitment.- Part 3. A New Community … encountering, reflecting and taking part: The Boy - Growing up and out into ‘a world beyond the hood’.- Part 4. A New World … investigating, visioning, engaging and creating: The Young Man walking in the Shadows.- The Old Man reaching for the Light.- Postscript.-  Index.

Raymond Lorenzo is Community-based City Planner (Harvard GSD, 1975) with considerable experience in university teaching. These have included the City University of New York Graduate School, The Open University and various Italian Universities. At present, he teaches “Place Making and Sustainable Communities” at The Umbra Institute, American Study Abroad, in Perugia Italy.

• Part 1. A New Home … awakening: The Little Child - Microcosm in Expansion … asking why.- The Old Man - Getting grounded … remembering why.- Part 2. A New Street … exploring and bonding: The Child - Free play, friendship and learning.- The Old Man - Getting around … recovering commitment.- Part 3. A New Community … encountering, reflecting and taking part: The Boy - Growing up and out into ‘a world beyond the hood’.- Part 4. A New World … investigating, visioning, engaging and creating: The Young Man walking in the Shadows.- The Old Man reaching for the Light.- Postscript.-  Index.