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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Fortunately , experience shows that problems are not intractable . But progress is often fragile . Achieving more sustainable gains requires skilled grassroots leadership , effective community - based institutions , and help from the ...
Thus , for example , a group or neighborhood is said to have greater social capital when more of its members have education , experience , and information , and perhaps more physical and financial wealth as well , to share .
However , in our experience , when people say or write community development , they are usually equating it with CDCs or at least using CDCs as the prototype . Often only the housing and commercial development aspects of what CDCs do ...
They employ the lessons from that experience not so much as a " model " for action but as a set of basic guiding concepts — including comprehensiveness , coordination , collaboration , and community participation — and then use a wide ...
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