ABSTRACT

The Community Development Reader is the first comprehensive reader addressing community development. Community development has become a significant component of urban political economies in the past thirty years. This Reader is 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.

part |1 pages

Part II: Community Development Institutions and Practice

chapter 8|14 pages

Social Housing: Michael E. Stone

part |1 pages

Part III: Understanding, Building, and Organizing Community

chapter 19|11 pages

What Community Supplies: Robert J. Sampson

part |1 pages

Part IV: Theoretical Conceptions and Debates

chapter 33|10 pages

Five Faces of Oppression: Iris Marion Young