The community development reader / James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeFilippis, James.

Saegert, Susan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development--United States.

Community development.

Planning.

United States.

Community development--United States--Planning.

Physical Description:

viii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Communities Develop: The Question is How? / James DeFilippis, Susan Saegert 1

Part I History and Future of Community Development

2 Swimming against the Tide: A Brief History of Federal Policy in Poor Communities / Alice O'Connor 9

3 Community Control and Development: The Long View / James DeFilippis 28

4 Community Building: New (and Old) Lessons about the Politics of Problem-solving in America's Cities / Xavier de Souza Briggs 36

Part II Community Development Institutions and Practice

5 Introduction to Part II / James DeFilippis, Susan Saegert 43

6 More than Bricks and Sticks: Five Components of Community Development Corporation Capacity / Norman J. Glickman, Lisa J. Servon 46

7 Learning from Adversity: The CDC School of Hard Knocks / William M. Rohe, Rachel G. Bratt, Protip Biswas 62

8 Social Housing / Michael E. Stone 67

9 Community Development Financial Institutions: Expanding Access to Capital in Under-served Markets / Lehn Benjamin, Julia Sass Rubin, Sean Zielenbach 81

10 No Progress Without Protest / Gregory D. Squires 89

11 The Economic Development of Neighborhoods and Localities / Wim Wiewel, Michael Teitz, Robert Giloth 92

12 Communities as Place, Face, and Space: provision of Services to Poor, Urban Children and their Families / Tama Leventhal, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Sheila B. Kamerman 102

13 Community-based Organizations and Migration in New York City / Hector R. Cordero-Guzman, Victoria Quiroz-Becerra 111

14 Social Capital, Religious Institutions, and Poor Communities / Michael W. Foley, John D. McCarthy, Mark Chaves 121

15 Collaborating to Reduce Poverty: Views from City Halls and Community-Based Organizations / Michael Rich, Michael Giles, Emily Stern 131

16 Toward Greater Effectiveness in Community Change: Challenges and Responses for Philanthropy / Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Ralph Hamilton, Harold Richman 140

17 The Place of Rural Community Development in Urban Society / Christopher D. Merrett, Timothy Collins 148

Part III Understanding, Building, and Organizing Community

18 Introduction to Part III / James DeFilippis, Susan Saegert 159

19 What Community Supplies / Robert J. Sampson 163

20 The Myth of a Purified Community / Richard Sennett 174

21 Community Organizing for Power and Democracy: Lessons Learned from a Life in the Trenches / Harold DeRienzo 181

22 Neighborhood Organizing: The Importance of Historical Context / Robert Fisher 186

23 A Theology of Organizing: From Alinsky to the Modern IAF / Mark Warren 194

24 Community Organizing: An Ecological Route to Empowerment and Power / Paul W. Speer, Joseph Hughey 204

25 Community Building: Limitations and Promise / Bill Traynor 214

26 Exploring Social Capital and Civic Engagement to Create a Framework for Community Building / James B. Hyman 225

27 Doing Democracy Up-Close: Culture, Power, and Communication in Community Planning / Xavier de Souza Briggs 234

28 Community Organizing or Organizing Community? Gender and the Crafts of Empowerment / Susan Stall, Randy Stoecker 241

29 How Does Community Matter for Community Organizing? / David Micah Greenberg 249

Part IV Theoretical Conceptions and Debates

30 Introduction to Part IV / James DeFilippis, Susan Saegert 261

31 Domestic Property Interests as a Seedbed for Community Action / John Emmeus Davis 263

32 Has Homeownership Been Oversold? / Winton Pitcoff 271

33 Five Faces of Oppression / Iris Marion Young 276

34 Expanding Comprehensiveness: Structural Racism and Community Building in the United States / Keith Lawrence 286

35 Defining Feminist Community: Place, Choice, and the Urban Politics of Difference / Judith Garber 295

36 The CDC Model of Urban Development: A Critique and an Alternative / Randy Stoecker 303

37 The Construction of the Local and the Limits of Contemporary Community Building in the United States / James Fraser, Jonathan Lepofsky, Edward Kick, J. Patrick Williams 311

38 Strengthening the Connections between Communities and External Resources / Anne C. Kubisch, Patricia Auspos, Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Karen Fulbright-Anderson, Ralph Hamilton 319.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415954297

0415954290

9780415954280

0415954282

OCLC:

131064868