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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Reconceiving the community development Field . ... Ronald F. Ferguson and Sara E. Stoutland Comment by Bennett Harrison 3. Swimming against the Tide : A Brief History of Federal Policy in Poor Communities Alice O'Connor Comment by ...
Communities where all these conditions coexist are in danger of becoming more and more isolated from the mainstream of ... It addresses urban problems from the perspective of a broadly conceived vision for community development .
Thus , in our definition community development is asset building that improves the quality of life among residents of low- to moderate - income communities , where communities are defined as neighborhoods or multineighborhood areas .
Nonprofits that do capacity building and have all the same comprehensive concerns as CDCs are considered part of the community development field by the definition we have given , because they produce basic social , intellectual ...
Specifically , community development should be neighborhood oriented , resident driven , and empowerment focused . Figure 1-1 presents examples of organizations for all of the eight possible high- and low - compliance combinations of ...