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Climbing upwards in this way, one would reach a fork where two streams joined, anda choicehadtobemade.Noreliable information couldbeobtained from the map,andnogeneraloverviewwaspossible toguidethe choice,whichwasbased only on what could be seen within a few yards, or on any general predisposition to go towards the right or the left… Having climbed high up the side of the valley, one would pause and camp for the night… Then it was possible to feel a sense of achievement: to have climbed so high and to be able to look back over the lower country out of which one had come. And it was easy to believe that all the choices, which had been made along the way, were justified by the outcome, and were the only right choices to be made. This self-congratulation might have of course been quite unwarranted. Some other route might have led to still higher ground, and done so more easily. But if so, the knowledge was hidden, and the complacency uncontradicted. (Rosenbrock, 1990, pp. 123–124)
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- Community Practice
- Network Society
- Network Neighbourhood
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Day, P., Schuler, D. (2006). Community Practice in the Network Society: Pathways Toward Civic Intelligence. In: Purcell, P. (eds) Networked Neighbourhoods. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-601-8_2
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