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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... neighbors should have the capacity to collaborate among themselves and with business people , public officials , and service providers to solve them . —The neighborhood should be influential in local political affairs , and it should ...
... neighbor- hood benefit individually or collectively . 3 Assets in community development , as in any other context , take five basic forms : physical capital in the form of buildings , tools , and so 2. Sampson acknowledges the ambiguity ...
... neighbor- hood settlement houses . ... And I think wherever you get effective leaders , that's probably where you ought to build . And maybe it isn't a formula that says you begin with a CDC by definition ; you sort of start with who is ...
... neighbor- hoods , these public interventions serve important public purposes . " 22 Unfortunately , knowledge regarding just how much difference com- munity development can make comes mostly from anecdotes and advo- cates , not from ...
... neighbors, responsive elected officials, accessible jobs and shopping and health care, decent and affordable housing, access to religious institutions, and schools good enough to prepare children for college. Contrary to stereotype ...
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