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The Community Development Reader

by: DeFilippis; James

The Community Development Reader

by: DeFilippis; James

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9780415954297
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Copyright: 11/09/2007
Publisher: Routledge

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The Community Development Reader is the first comprehensive reader in the past thirty years that brings together history, theory and power dynamics in urban political economies. In addition to presenting the theoretical model of community development, this book also addresses the messy complications of community development in practice. Book jacket.

List of illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Communities Develop: The Question is How?	p. 1
History and Future of Community Development
Swimming against the Tide: A Brief History of Federal Policy in Poor Communities	p. 9
Community Control and Development: The Long View	p. 28
Community Building: New (and Old) Lessons about the Politics of Problem-solving in America's Cities	p. 36
Community Development Institutions and Practice
Introduction to Part II	p. 43
More than Bricks and Sticks: Five Components of Community Development Corporation Capacity	p. 46
Learning from Adversity: The CDC School of Hard Knocks	p. 62
Social Housing	p. 67
Community Development Financial Institutions: Expanding Access to Capital in Under-served Markets	p. 81
No Progress Without Protest	p. 89
The Economic Development of Neighborhoods and Localities	p. 92
Communities as Place, Face, and Space: provision of Services to Poor, Urban Children and their Families	p. 102
Community-based Organizations and Migration in New York City	p. 111
Social Capital, Religious Institutions, and Poor Communities	p. 121
Collaborating to Reduce Poverty: Views from City Halls and Community-Based Organizations	p. 131
Toward Greater Effectiveness in Community Change: Challenges and Responses for Philanthropy	p. 140
The Place of Rural Community Development in Urban Society	p. 148
Understanding, Building, and Organizing Community
Introduction to Part III	p. 159
What Community Supplies	p. 163
The Myth of a Purified Community	p. 174
Community Organizing for Power and Democracy: Lessons Learned from a Life in the Trenches	p. 181
Neighborhood Organizing: The Importance of Historical Context	p. 186
A Theology of Organizing: From Alinsky to the Modern IAF	p. 194
Community Organizing: An Ecological Route to Empowerment and Power	p. 204
Community Building: Limitations and Promise	p. 214
Exploring Social Capital and Civic Engagement to Create a Framework for Community Building	p. 225
Doing Democracy Up-Close: Culture, Power, and Communication in Community Planning	p. 234
Community Organizing or Organizing Community? Gender and the Crafts of Empowerment	p. 241
How Does Community Matter for Community Organizing?	p. 249
Theoretical Conceptions and Debates
Introduction to Part IV	p. 261
Domestic Property Interests as a Seedbed for Community Action	p. 263
Has Homeownership Been Oversold?	p. 271
Five Faces of Oppression	p. 276
Expanding Comprehensiveness: Structural Racism and Community Building in the United States	p. 286
Defining Feminist Community: Place, Choice, and the Urban Politics of Difference	p. 295
The CDC Model of Urban Development: A Critique and an Alternative	p. 303
The Construction of the Local and the Limits of Contemporary Community Building in the United States	p. 311
Strengthening the Connections between Communities and External Resources	p. 319
Conclusion	p. 327
Permissions	p. 333
Index	p. 336
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