\nJ<\/span>ust southwest of the University District, near the corner of N. Browne St. and Main, lies one of Spokane\u2019s most trendy city blocks, a bustling pocket of once neglected, now mostly restored historic buildings. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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The casual visitor might be forgiven for imagining that this hipster-friendly assortment of businesses is simply a funky shopping and entertainment hub. But as Summer Hess \u201912 points out in a new account of the area, the mini-district collectively known as the Community Building Campus is, in fact, merely the latest phase in a two-decades-long attempt to create a more socially conscious, community-driven form of urban development. The idea being, as one civic leader puts it, to help \u201cgood people and good organizations [do] great things for our world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The book, One-Block Revolution<\/i>, is a collection of 19 essays that reflect on the campus and its wider impact \u2014 both in Spokane and around the country. Hess says she first encountered the campus as an EWU work-study student in 2009. She later became an assistant and project manager for its founder, Jim Sheehan, a former public defender and activist. Hess says the essays\u2019 aim is to provide \u201con-the-ground examples of experimental and non-traditional philanthropy and community-centered development.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMost private developers put profit first,\u201d she explains, \u201cand some try to make accommodations for sustainability or human happiness in order to make their projects more marketable or desirable. The Community Building Campus, on the other hand, puts people and the environment first.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Putting people before profit is at the core of the \u201crevolutionary\u201d aspect of the one-block campus. \u201cThis book provides an alternative framework for how wealth can be shared and used for a more collective good,\u201d Hess says.<\/span><\/p>\n One-Block Revolution<\/i>, which best-selling novelist Jess Walter \u201987 has called \u201ca fascinating collection of pieces about my favorite neighborhood in Spokane,\u201d is available at major retailers and through its locally owned publisher, Latah Books.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Essays edited by Eastern alumna Summer Hess explore one of Spokane\u2019s most interesting urban spaces. Just southwest of the University District, near the corner of N. Browne St. and Main, lies one of Spokane\u2019s most trendy city blocks, a bustling pocket of once neglected, now mostly restored historic buildings. \u00a0 \u00a0 The casual visitor might…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":1168,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1166","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-alumni-profiles","stories_categories-research","stories_categories-students","stories_tags-fall-winter-2021"],"acf":{"featured_video":"","subheading":"","display_byline":false,"display_date_published":false,"Links":false,"Resources":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1166\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}