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Neighbor power : building community the Seattle way / Jim Diers.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Diers, Jim.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community development--Washington (State)--Seattle.
- Community development.
- Washington (State)--Seattle.
- Physical Description:
- x, 202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Providing concrete examples for citizens and government officials, Diers describes a successful program to support community self-help projects and a community-driven planning process that involved 30,000 people.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Valuing community : the Department of Neighborhoods' origins
- Organizing communities : involving all neighbors and other programs
- Connecting communities : neighborhood service centers and district councils
- Building community : the neighborhood matching fund
- Cultivating community : the p-patch program
- Sustaining communities : the neighborhood planning program
- Celebrating community : neighbor appreciation day
- Modeling community : Columbia City
- Replicating neighborhood programs
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0295984449
- OCLC:
- 55665320
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