Urban Problems and Community DevelopmentRonald F. Ferguson, William T. Dickens Brookings Institution Press, 01/01/2011 - 642 من الصفحات In 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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... Initiative ( NCDI ) . NCDI is sponsored by twelve funders that organized in the early 1990s to support and expand the work of commu- nity development organizations across the nation . Two national intermedi- aries , the Local Initiatives ...
... initiatives ( CCIs ) , in addition to other asset - based development initiatives such as community development financial institutions ( CDFIs ) . It also subsumes the educa- tion , health care , and community - building aspects of ...
... some methods of com- munity organizing , that would appear grossly out of place under one of the others . Consider the following statement from the Aspen Institute's Roundtable on Comprehensive Initiatives : Introduction / II.
... Initiatives for Children and Families ( 1997 , pp . 12-13 ) . 18. Roundtable on Comprehensive Neighborhood Initiatives for Children and Families ( 1997 , pp . 15 , 13 ) . 20. NCCED ( 1995 , p . 5 ) . the umbrella label . CDCs , CCIs ...
... Initiatives are hard at work on developing the ideas behind and testing the usefulness of theory-based evaluation. See, for example, Connell and others (1995); and Milligan, Coulton, and Register (1996). 24. On the Bronx, see Briggs ...
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