Scanning across recent decades, Fractured Society ... Causes, Effects and Resolutions looks at how human relations have been coming apart psychologically, a situation summarised by a failure to understand each other. Young people seem more stressed than previous generations, while politics are now more polarised than for a long time past. Wherever you look, at gender relations, the working environment, responses to traumatic events and how people relate - positively and negatively - to their sense of place, there are profound strains on how we interact with each other. But maybe all is not lost! Hugh Roberts examines how every situation can look better in context, applying lessons learned from many years working internationally with different cultures and value systems. He proposes a fresh approach to relationship building, based on empathy and understanding of individual agendas. CV19 has brought communities a renewed sense of collective purpose with digital communication proving vital in sustaining relationships. However, the Internet needs to take its rightful place in, rather than take over, the slow re-building of mutual trust. Fractured Society delivers an upbeat message advocating a better-connected world created through encouraging us to adopt a positive, empathetic approach to one another, replacing an approach shrouded in fear and mistrust of forming new acquaintances.

About the Author
Hugh Roberts has spent forty years in planning, design and development consultancy for new towns and urban, industrial and regional infrastructure. He has lived, as well as worked, in all six continents. His clients and project colleagues have been from many nationalities, characters and humours. He is a graduate of the Universities of Oxford and Wales. Fractured Society ...Examining Causes and Solutions is his third book with the common denominator between each of them being an international perspective. An Urban Profile of the Middle East, published in 1979 and updated in 2016, looked at what planners were thinking about the region. Journeys with Open Eyes: Seeking Empathy with Strangers, published by i2i Publishing in 2017, was a travel biography, including interesting and amusing stories about urban master-planning projects across all six continents over more than four decades. Hugh continues to do advisory work with a range of his former, full-time, professional colleagues and lives in London with his wife Sylvie. They have two adult children, Mark and Shan and two granddaughters to date, Lola and Manon. He is currently a Director of the Society of Authors and continues to travel widely for pleasure as well as for urban project assignments.


Book Information
ISBN 9781838222321
Author Hugh Roberts
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint i2i Publishing
Publisher i2i Publishing