The Community Development Reader, 2nd Edition
James DeFilippisis an Associate Professor in the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. He is the author ofUnmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital, and co-author (with Robert Fisher and Eric Shragge) ofContesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing.Susan Saegertis Professor of Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she was also the first director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society.  Dr. Saegert has published five books includingSocial Capital in Poor Communitieswith Phil Thompson and Mark Warren (Russell Sage, 2001), andFrom Abandonment to Hope: Community Households in Harlem, with Jackie Leavitt (Columbia University Press, 1990).