The Community Development Reader

by DeFilippis; James

• ISBN13: 9780415507769
• ISBN10: 0415507766
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Community Development Readeris the first comprehensive reader addressing community development. Community development has become a significant component of urban political economies in the past thirty years. This Readeris an ambitious volume bringing together history, theory and power dynamics. It does not just promote the model of community development but also addresses the messiness of community development.

Author Biography

James DeFilippis is an Associate Professor in the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. He is the author of Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital, and co-author (with Robert Fisher and Eric Shragge) of Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing. Susan Saegert is 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 including Social Capital in Poor Communities with Phil Thompson and Mark Warren (2001), and From Abandonment to Hope: Community Households in Harlem with Jackie Leavitt (1990).

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Notes on the text	p. xiv
Communities Develop: The Question is, How?	p. 1
History and Future of Community Development
Swimming against the Tide: A Brief History of Federal Policy in Poor Communities	p. 11
Community Control and Development: The Long View	p. 30
Refraining Community Practice for the 21st Century: Multiple Traditions, Multiple Challenges	p. 38
Community Development Institutions and Practice
Introduction to Part II	p. 51
More than Bricks and Sticks: Five Components of Community Development Corporation Capacity	p. 54
Learning from Adversity: The CDC School of Hard Knocks	p. 70
Social Housing	p. 75
Community Response to Foreclosure	p. 90
Community Development Financial Institutions: Expanding Access to Capital in Under-Served Markets	p. 99
The Economic Development of Neighborhoods and Localities	p. 107
Conceptual Overview of What We Know about Social Entrepreneurship	p. 117
Communities as Place, Face, and Space: Provision of Services to Poor, Urban Children and their Families	p. 125
Connecting Public Schools to Community Development	p. 134
Capacity Building: The Case of Faith-based Organizations	p. 140
Toward Greater Effectiveness in Community Change: Challenges and Responses for Philanthropy	p. 150
City Government's Role in the Community Development System	p. 158
Diverse Food Economies, Multivariant Capitalism, and the Community Dynamic Shaping Contemporary Food Systems	p. 157
Sustainability in Community Development	p. 175
Building and Organizing Community
Introduction to Part III	p. 187
History Matters: Canons, Anti-Canons and Critical Lessons from the Past	p. 191
Community Organizing or Organizing Community? Gender and the Crafts of Empowerment	p. 201
Community Building: Limitations and Promise	p. 209
Building Civic Capacity in Urban Neighborhoods: An Empirically Grounded Anatomy	p. 220
How Does Community Matter for Community Organizing?	p. 228
Doing Democracy Up Close: Culture, Power, and Communication in Community Planning	p. 237
Community Organizing for Power and Democracy: Lessons Learned from a Life in the Trenches	p. 244
Globalization and Community Development
Introduction to Part IV	p. 251
Globalization and Free Trade	p. 253
Post-Industrial Widgets: Capital Flows and the Production of the Urban	p. 262
Community-based Organizations and Migration in New York City	p. 270
Migrant Hometown Associations and Opportunities for Development: A Global Perspective	p. 280
Global Corporations, Global Campaigns: The Struggle for Justice at Kukdong International in Mexico	p. 286
The International Roots of Microenterprise Development	p. 293
Theoretical Conceptions and Debates
Introduction to Part V	p. 305
What Community Supplies	p. 308
Development as Capability Expansion	p. 319
Five Faces of Oppression	p. 328
Defining Feminist Community: Place, Choice, and the Urban Politics of Difference	p. 338
Privileged Places: Race, Opportunity, and Uneven Development in Urban America	p. 347
Domestic Property interests as a Seedbed for Community Action	p. 353
The CDC Model of Urban Development: A Critique and an Alternative	p. 361
Strengthening the Connections between Communities and External Resources	p. 369
Concluding Thoughts	p. 377
Index	p. 383
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