Urban Problems and Community DevelopmentIn recent years, concerned governments, businesses, and civic groups have launched ambitious programs of community development designed to halt, and even reverse, decades of urban decline. But while massive amounts of effort and money are being dedicated to improving the inner-cities, two important questions have gone unanswered: Can community development actually help solve long-standing urban problems? And, based on social science analyses, what kinds of initiatives can make a difference? This book surveys what we currently know and what we need to know about community development's past, current, and potential contributions. The authors--economists, sociologists, political scientists, and a historian--define community development broadly to include all capacity building (including social, intellectual, physical, financial, and political assets) aimed at improving the quality of life in low- to moderate-income neighborhoods. The book addresses the history of urban development strategies, the politics of resource allocation, business and workforce development, housing, community development corporations, informal social organizations, schooling, and public security. |
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Or , for a job placement agency that serves a particular neighborhood , building relationships with suburban employers is development because it increases the intellectual and social assets that the agency can use to supply job ...
In a more well developed field of endeavor , NCCED would not be the only agency producing such numbers . Indeed , it could rely on numbers produced in other places . 13. Quoted from instructions on page 2 of the NCCED survey that ...
A practitioner in Cleveland explains , " There's the churches , the social service agencies , the neighborhood settlement houses . ... And I think wherever you get effective leaders , that's probably where you ought to build .
Vidal ( 1992 ) reported that some CDCs started as community action agencies during the 1960s War on Poverty . Also , in the data from the survey that NCCED conducted of CDCs in 1994 ( reported in NCCED , 1995 ) seven neighborhood or ...
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