Title: The community development reader /
Authors: DeFilippis, James.; Saegert, Susan.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Community development United States.; Community development United States Planning.
Abstract: This reader addresses community development, a significant component of urban political economies in the past 30 years. It focuses equally on the organising, history, theory, and the debates most important to the subject.
Contents: Communities develop: the question is how / James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert -- Swimming against the tide: a brief history of Federal policy in poor communities / Alice O'Connor -- Community control and development: the long view / James DeFilippis -- Community building: new (and old) lessons about the politics of problem-solving in America's cities / Xavier de Souza Briggs -- Introduction to part II / James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert -- More than bricks and sticks: five components of community development corporation capacity / Norman J. Glickman and Lisa J. Servon -- Learning from adversity: the CDC school of hard knocks / William M. Rohe, Rachel G. Bratt, and Protip Biswas -- Social housing / Michael E. Stone -- Community development financial institutions: expanding access to capital in under-served markets / Lehn Benjamin, Julia Sass Rubin, and Sean Zielenbach -- No progress without protest / Gregory D. Squires -- The economic development of neighborhoods and localities / Wim Wiewel, Michael Teitz, and Robert Giloth -- Communities as place, face, and space: provision of services to poor, urban children and their families / Tama Levanthal, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Sheila B. Kamerman --