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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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 ...
... ( with boards comprising residents , business people and community leaders ) ; the community is the target of their investments ; their concern is with community vitality comprehensively defined ; and they produce tangible results .
... concerns were probably heightened by separatist black power and "liberation" rhetoric in which radical black nationalists tied ghetto development to the "colonial analogy."2 According to the analogy, to which some people still ...
Today , as in 1968 , an appropriate response to Kain and Persky's concerns is to acknowledge that continued pressure against housing discrimination , especially in suburbs , and other special efforts to help city residents gain access ...
that professionalization may help account for CDCs ' recent growth ( because of concern for grassroots participation in planning and local projects but , interestingly , not protest ) . Some believe that a parallel resurgence in ...