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 .
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. Sites, William, Robert J. Chaskin, and Virginia Parks.2007. Reframing community practice for the 21st century: Multiple traditions, multiple challenges. Journal of Urban Affairs 29(5): 519-541.
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. Immergluck, Dan. Community Response to Foreclosure. Revised from: Immergluck, D. 2008. Community response to the foreclosure crisis: Thoughts on local interventions. Community Affairs Discussion Paper No. 01-08. October 10. Atlanta: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
10.Community Development Financial Institutions: Expanding Access to Capital in Under-served Markets 81
Lehn Benjamin, Julia Sass Rubin, and Sean Zielenbach
11.The Economic Development of Neighborhoods and Localities
Wim Wiewel, Michael Teitz, and Robert Giloth
12. Hoogendoorn, Brigitte, Pennings, Enrico, and Roy Thurik. 2010. What Do We Know About Social Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of Empirical Research. Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. ERS-2009-044-ORG
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. Chung, Connie. 2005. Connecting Public Schools to Community Development. Communities and Banking. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Winter. p. 10-16
15. Owens, Michael Lee. Capacity Building: The case of faith-based organizations. In Building the Organizations that Build Communities: Strengthening the Capacity of Faith-Based and Community-Based Development Organizations, ed. Roland Anglin (Washington, DC: Office of Policy Development & Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development), pp. 127-163.
16. Toward Greater Effectiveness in Community Change: Challenges and Responses for Philanthropy
Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Ralph Hamilton, and Harold Richman
17. Mayer, Neil and Langley Keyes. 2005. City Government’s Role in the Community Development System. Washington, DC: Urban Institute
18. Dixon, Jane. 2011. Diverse food economies, multivariant capitalism, and the community dynamic shaping contemporary food systems. Community Development Journal. 46(suppl 1): i20-i35
19. Wheeler, Stephen. 2009. Sustainability in Community Development. in An Introduction to Community Development Phillips, Rhonda and Robert Pittman (Eds). London and New York: Routledge
PART III. BUILDING AND ORGANIZING COMMUNITY
20. Introduction to Part III
James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert
21. Fisher, Robert, DeFilippis, James, and Eric Shragge. 2010. History Matters: Cannons, Anti- Cannons and Critical Lessons from the Past. From Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
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. Saegert, S. (2006) Building Civic Capacity in Urban Neighborhoods: An Empirically Grounded Anatomy. Journal of Urban Affairs, 28:275-294.
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. Williamson, Thad, Imbroscio, David, and Gar Alperovitz. 2002. "Globalization and Free Trade" in Making a Place for Community. New York: Routledge
30. Newman, Kathe. Post-Industrial Widgets: Capital Flows and the Production of the Urban. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 33 (2): 314-331
31. Community-based Organizations and Migration in New York City
Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán and Victoria Quiroz-Becerra
32. Orozco, Manuel and Rebecca Rouse. 2007. Migrant Hometown Associations and Opportunities for Development: A Global Perspective. Migration Information Source, Migration Policy Institute.
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33. Hermanson, Jeff. 2004. Global Corporations, Global Campaigns - The Struggle for Justice at Kukdong International in Mexico. American Center for International Labor Solidarity
34. Jurik, Nancy. 2005. The International Roots of Microenterprise Development. in Bootstrap Dreams: U.S. Microenterprise Development in An Era of Welfare Reform. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
PART V. THEORETICAL CONCEPTIONS AND DEBATES
35. Introduction to Part V
James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert
36. What Community Supplies
Robert J. Sampson
37. Sen, Amatrya. 2003. Development as Capability Expansion. In Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko and A.K. Shiva Kumar (eds.) Readings in Human Development. New Delhi: Oxford University Press
38. Five Faces of Oppression
Iris Marion Young
39. Defining Feminist Community: Place, Choice, and the Urban Politics of Difference
Judith Garber
40. Squires, Gregory and Charis E. Kubrin. 2006. Privileged Places: Race Opportunity and Uneven Development in Urban America. Shelterforce. Issue #147, Fall 2006
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, Patricia Auspos, Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin,
Karen Fulbright-Anderson, and Ralph Hamilton
44. Conclusion
James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert
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 (Russell Sage, 2001), and From Abandonment to Hope: Community Households in Harlem , with Jackie Leavitt (Columbia University Press, 1990).
"This updated anthology is a welcome addition for those who teach community development. It is a thorough and comprehensive treatment of the field that covers questions of practice and theory. A new section on globalization and contributions on sustainability make it the best single source for students of community development."
—Edward G. Goetz, Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
"Community development practitioners like me learn largely from our successes and failures at the most granular street level, as well as dialogue with colleagues and policy makers. The Community Development Reader provides a multitude of insightful and up to date chapters on community development strategies and institutions as well as critical examination of the challenges we face. I found the chapters on food systems and environmental sustainability particularly relevant to our current initiatives."
—Nancy Biberman, President, Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDco)
"I rely on The Community Development Reader as a unique book that is unparalleled. No other book examines the concept of communities and develops the theme into a rich and powerful examination of the city as a complex array of processes. While it is an edited volume, The CDR reads like a single-authored work, as it seamlessly incorporates significant essays from leading scholars."
—Immanuel Ness, Political Science, Brooklyn College
"The book is fascinating: the writings are well organized, the concepts are easy to understand, and the stories are very appropriate for my students. It covers a wide arrange of topics in community development practices, including a variety of dimensions of community development, from fund-raising, to organization management, to involving the community. The topics give our students a lot to discuss and debate about – great for critical thinking."
—Jia Lu, Architecture and Planning, Catholic University