Rick Reinhard

He is Principal of Niagara Consulting Group and Associate of The Lakelands Group, both of Montgomery County, Maryland. He led economic-development organizations in the U.S. and U.K. before going to work six years ago for the United Methodist Church. He was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

Cities need to prepare for a wave of declining houses of worship. While faith institutions, at least the Christian ones, have been asking WWJD (What would Jesus do?), municipalities need to get them to ask another question: WWJJD (What would Jane Jacobs do?). Doing so might lead to a new model for true community houses of worship.

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What Would Jane Jacobs Do? Toward a New Model for Houses of Worship

Rick Reinhard