Transforming the city
Subtitle: community organizing and the challenge of political change
By: edited by Marion Orr.
Contributors: Orr, Marion, 1962-
Series: Studies in government and public policy
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780700615131; 9780700615148
Subjects: Community organization -- United States; Community development, Urban -- United States; Social participation -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Community organizing and the changing ecology of civic engagement / Marion Orr; title: Running in place : Saul Alinsky, race, and community organizing / Mark Santow; title: Community organizing in a nonregime city : the New Orleans experience / Peter F. Burns; title: Division and fragmentation : the El Paso experience in global-local perspective / Kathleen Staudt and Clarence N. Stone; title: Community organizing and no child left behind / Dennis Shirley and Michael Evans; title: Political opportunity, venue shopping, and strategic innovation : ACORN's national organizing / Heidi Swarts; title: Higher power : strategic capacity for state and national organizing / Richard L. Wood; title: Contextualizing community organizing : lessons from the past, tensions in the present, opportunities for the future / Robert Fisher and Eric Shragge; title: Community organizing for what? : progressive politics and movement building in America / Peter Dreier; title: Summing up : community organizing and political change in the city / Marion Orr.