1. Communities Develop: The Question is How? / James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert -- 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 -- 3. Community Control and Development: The Long View / James DeFilippis -- 4. Reframing community practice for the 21st century: Multiple traditions, multiple challenges / William Sites, Robert J. Chaskin and Virginia Parks -- Part Ii. Community Development Institutions And Practice -- 5. Introduction to Part II / James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert -- 6. More than Bricks and Sticks: Five Components of Community Development Corporation Capacity / Norman J. Glickman and Lisa J. Servon -- 7. Learning from Adversity: The CDC School of Hard Knocks / William M. Rohe, Rachel G. Bratt, and Protip Biswas -- 8. Social Housing / Michael E. Stone -- 9. Community Response to Foreclosure / Dan Immergluck -- 10. Community Development Financial Institutions: Expanding Access to Capital in Under-served Markets / Lehn Benjamin, Julia Sass Rubin, and Sean Zielenbach -- 11. The Economic Development of Neighborhoods and Localities / Wim Wiewel, Michael Teitz, and Robert Giloth -- 12. Conceptual Overview of What Do We Know About Social Entrepreneurship / Brigitte Hoogendoorn, Enrico Pennings and Roy Thurik -- 13. Communities as Place, Face, and Space: Provision of Services to Poor, Urban Children and their Families. / Tama Leventhal, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Sheila B. Kamerman. -- 14. Connecting Public Schools to Community Development / Connie Chung -- 15. Capacity Building: The case of faith-based organizations / Michael Leo Owens -- 16. Toward Greater Effectiveness in Community Change: Challenges and Responses for Philanthropy / Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Ralph Hamilton, and Harold Richman -- 17. City Government's Role in the Community Development System / Neil Mayer and Langley Keyes -- 18. Diverse food economies, multivariant capitalism, and the community dynamic shaping contemporary food systems / Jane Dixon -- 19. Sustainability in Community Development / Stephen M. Wheeler. Part III. Building And Organizing Community -- 20. Introduction to Part III / James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert -- 21. History Matters: Cannons, Anti- Cannons and Critical Lessons from the Past / Robert Fisher, James Defilippis ans Eric Shragge -- 22. Community Organizing or Organizing Community? Gender and the Crafts of Empowerment / Susan Stall and Randy Stoecker -- 23. Community Building: Limitations and Promises / Bill Traynor -- 24. Building Civic Capacity in Urban Neighborhoods: An Empirically Grounded Anatomy / Susan Saegert -- 25. How Does Community Matter for Community Organizing? / David Micah Greenberg -- 26. Doing Democracy Up-Close: Culture, Power, and Communication in Community Planning / Xavier de Souza Briggs -- 27. Community Organizing for Power and Democracy: Lessons Learned from a Life in the Trenches / Harold DeRienzo -- Part IV. Globalization and Community Development -- 28. Introduction to Part IV / James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert -- 29. Globalization and Free Trade / Thad Williamson, David Imbroscio and Gar Alperovitz -- 30. Post-Industrial Widgets: Capital Flows and the Production of the Urban / Kathie Newman -- 31. Community-based Organizations and Migration in New York City / Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán and Victoria Quiroz-Becerra -- 32. Migrant Hometown Associations and Opportunities for Development: A Global Perspective / Manuel Orozco and Rebecca Rouse -- 33. Global Corporations, Global Campaigns -- The Struggle for Justice at Kukdong International in Mexico / Jeff Hermanson -- 34. The International Roots of Microenterprise Development / Nancy Jurik -- Part V. Theoretical Conceptions And Debates -- 35. Introduction to Part V / James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert -- 36. What Community Supplies / Robert J. Sampson -- 37. Development as Capability Expansion / Amartya Sen -- 38. Five Faces of Oppression / Iris Marion Young -- 39. Defining Feminist Community: Place, Choice, and the Urban Politics of Difference / Judith Garber. 40. Privileged Places: Race Opportunity and Uneven Development in Urban America / Gregory D. Squires and Charles E. Kubrin -- 41. Domestic Property Interests as a Seedbed for Community Action / John Emmeus Davis -- 42. The CDC Model of Urban Development: A Critique and an Alternative / Randy Stoecker -- 43. Strengthening the Connections between Communities and External Resources / Anne C. Kubisch, ... [et al.].
Summary:
The Community Development Reader is the first comprehensive reader in the past thirty years that brings together practice, theory and critique concerning communities as sites of social change. With chapters written by some of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, the book presents a diverse set of perspectives on community development. These selections inform the reader about established and emerging community development institutions and practices as well as the main debates in the field. The second edition is significantly updated and expanded to include a section on globalization as well as new chapters on the foreclosure crisis, and emerging forms of community.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.