The community development reader

Communities develop: the question is how / James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert

pt 1. History and future of community development . Swimming against the tide: a brief history of Federal policy in poor communities / Alice O'Connor

Collective ownership and community control and development: the long view / James DeFilippis

The new (and old) politics of urban problem solving / Xavier de Souza Briggs

pt 2. Community development institutions and practice.

More than bricks and sticks: five components of community development corporation capacity / Norman Glickman and Lisa Servon

Learning from adversity: The CDC school of hard knocks / by William Rohe, Rachel Bratt, and Protip Biswas

Social ownership of housing / by Michael Stone

Community development financial institutions / by Benjamin Lehn, Julia Sass Rubin, and Sean Zielenbach

No progress without protest / by Gregory Squires

Economic development of neighborhoods and localities / by Wim Wiewel, Michael Teitz, and Robert Giloth

Communities of place, face and space: provision of services to poor, urban children and their families / Tama Levanthal, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Sheila Kamerman

Community based organizations and migration in New York City / by Hector Cordero-Guzm n and Victoria Quiroz-Becerra

Social capital, religious institutions and poor communities / by Michael Foley, John McCarthy and Mark Chaves

Collaborating to reduce poverty / Michael Rich, Michael Giles and Emily Stern

Toward greater effectiveness in community change: challenges and responses for philanthropy / by Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Ralph Hamilton, and Harold Richman

Rural community development: a focus on rural communities in urban societies / Timothy Collins and Christopher Merrett

pt. 3. Understanding, building, and organizing community. what community supplies / Robert Sampson

The myth of a purified community / Richard Sennett

Community organizing for power and democracy: lessons learned from a life in the trenches / Harold DeRienzo

Neighborhood organizing: The importance of historical context / Robert Fisher

A theology of organizing: from Alinsky to the modern IAF / Mark Warren

Community organizing: an ecological route to empowerment and power / Paul Speer, and Joe Hughey

Community building : limitations and promise / William Traynor

Exploring social capital and civic engagement to create a framework for community building / James Hyman

Doing democracy up-close: culture, power and communication in community planning / Xavier de Souza Briggs

Community organizing or organizing community? gender and the crafts of empowerment / Susan Stall and Randy Stoecker

How do communities matter for community organizing? / David Greenberg

pt. 4. Theoretical conceptions and debates.

Domestic property interests as a seedbed for community action / John E. Davis

Has homeownership been oversold? / Winton Pitcoff

The five faces of oppression / Iris Marion Young

Expanding comprehensiveness: structural racism and community building in the United States / Keith Lawrence

Defining feminist community / Judith Garber

The CDC model of urban development: a critique and an alternative / Randy Stoecker

The construction of the local and the limits of contemporary community-building in the United states / James Fraser, Jonathan Lepofsky, Edward Kick and J. Patrick Williams

Strengthening the connections between communities and external resources / Anne C. Kubisch, Patricia Auspos, Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Karen Fulbright-Anderson, and Ralph Hamilton

Concluding thoughts / James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert.