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 ...
Table 1-1 shows the distribution of activity in 1994 among 8 | Ronald F. Ferguson and William T. Dickens.
Table 1-1 shows the distribution of activity in 1994 among organizations that responded to the NCCED survey and indicated they served urban neighborhood or multineighborhood areas.15 Each row of the table corresponds to a type of ...
37. In addition to references in preceding notes for this paragraph , see Kingsley and Turner ( 1993 ) . In chapter 3 historian Alice O'Connor shows that alliances in 20 | Ronald F. Ferguson and William T. Dickens.
In chapter 3 historian Alice O'Connor shows that alliances in the twentieth century to promote the community development agenda at the federal level have been weak political coalitions , undermined by internal fragmentation ...