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The community development reader
Publisher
Routledge
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
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Communities develop: the question is how / James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert
pt 1. History and future of community development . Swimming against the tide: a brief history of Federal policy in poor communities / Alice O'Connor
Collective ownership and community control and development: the long view / James DeFilippis
The new (and old) politics of urban problem solving / Xavier de Souza Briggs
pt 2. Community development institutions and practice.
More than bricks and sticks: five components of community development corporation capacity / Norman Glickman and Lisa Servon
Learning from adversity: The CDC school of hard knocks / by William Rohe, Rachel Bratt, and Protip Biswas
Social ownership of housing / by Michael Stone
Community development financial institutions / by Benjamin Lehn, Julia Sass Rubin, and Sean Zielenbach
No progress without protest / by Gregory Squires
Economic development of neighborhoods and localities / by Wim Wiewel, Michael Teitz, and Robert Giloth
Communities of place, face and space: provision of services to poor, urban children and their families / Tama Levanthal, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Sheila Kamerman
Community based organizations and migration in New York City / by Hector Cordero-Guzm n and Victoria Quiroz-Becerra
Social capital, religious institutions and poor communities / by Michael Foley, John McCarthy and Mark Chaves
Collaborating to reduce poverty / Michael Rich, Michael Giles and Emily Stern
Toward greater effectiveness in community change: challenges and responses for philanthropy / by Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Ralph Hamilton, and Harold Richman
Rural community development: a focus on rural communities in urban societies / Timothy Collins and Christopher Merrett
pt. 3. Understanding, building, and organizing community. what community supplies / Robert Sampson
The myth of a purified community / Richard Sennett
Community organizing for power and democracy: lessons learned from a life in the trenches / Harold DeRienzo
Neighborhood organizing: The importance of historical context / Robert Fisher
A theology of organizing: from Alinsky to the modern IAF / Mark Warren
Community organizing: an ecological route to empowerment and power / Paul Speer, and Joe Hughey
Community building : limitations and promise / William Traynor
Exploring social capital and civic engagement to create a framework for community building / James Hyman
Doing democracy up-close: culture, power and communication in community planning / Xavier de Souza Briggs
Community organizing or organizing community? gender and the crafts of empowerment / Susan Stall and Randy Stoecker
How do communities matter for community organizing? / David Greenberg
pt. 4. Theoretical conceptions and debates.
Domestic property interests as a seedbed for community action / John E. Davis
Has homeownership been oversold? / Winton Pitcoff
The five faces of oppression / Iris Marion Young
Expanding comprehensiveness: structural racism and community building in the United States / Keith Lawrence
Defining feminist community / Judith Garber
The CDC model of urban development: a critique and an alternative / Randy Stoecker
The construction of the local and the limits of contemporary community-building in the United states / James Fraser, Jonathan Lepofsky, Edward Kick and J. Patrick Williams
Strengthening the connections between communities and external resources / Anne C. Kubisch, Patricia Auspos, Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Karen Fulbright-Anderson, and Ralph Hamilton
Concluding thoughts / James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert.
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9780415954280
9780415954297
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