Asset Building & Community Development
by Green, Gary Paul; Haines, AnnaEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-08-14
Publisher(s): Sage Pubns
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Summary
"This text provides practical insight and examples not available in other texts" - Desna Wallin , University of GeorgiaThe Second Edition of Asset Building and Community Development examines the promise and limits of community development. Authors Gary Paul Green and Anna Haines provide an engaging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive approach to asset building by focusing on the role of different forms of community capital in the development process. Updated throughout, this edition explores how communities are building on their key assets-physical, human, social, financial, environmental, political, and cultural capital.New to the Second Edition Provides a more in-depth discussion of the role of assets in local development: Students are able to make stronger connections between the theory and practice of community development. Presents a broader treatment of the community development field: Community-based organizations are explored, including faith-based organizations, youth-oriented organizations, and neighborhood associations. Traces the history of community development: Chapters on cultural and political capital have been added. Offers updated resources for students and practitioners: In addition to exercises and questions, each chapter concludes with case studies, additional references, Web sites, and videos.Intended AudienceThis is an ideal core textbook for undergraduate courses such as Community Development, Community Planning, and Urban Sociology in departments of sociology, urban and regional planning, political science, economics, urban studies, and geography.Meet the authors!    Gary Green's website www.drs.wisc.edu/green                                 Anna Haines website www.uwsp.edu/cnr/landcenter/
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| The Role of Assets in Community-Based Development | |
| Whither Community? | |
| Growth Versus Development People Versus Place | |
| The Challenge of Regionalism | |
| Asset Building Public Participation | |
| The Role of Community-Based Organizations | |
| Models of Community Development Self-Help | |
| Technical Assistance | |
| Conflict | |
| Summary and Conclusions | |
| A History of Community Development in America | |
| The Evolution of Community Development | |
| The Progressive Era | |
| The New Deal | |
| Urban Renewal and Area Redevelopment | |
| The War on Poverty | |
| Retrenchment during the Nixon and Reagan Administrations | |
| The Clinton Years | |
| The Bush Administration | |
| Recurring Issues in Community Development | |
| Participation | |
| Race Gender | |
| Summary and Conclusions | |
| The Community Development Process Public Participation | |
| Community Organizing | |
| Community Visioning | |
| The Roots of Visioning: Context and History | |
| Comprehensive-Rational Planning | |
| Advocacy Planning | |
| Strategic Planning Visioning | |
| Timing and Momentum Workshops | |
| Goals and Strategy Development | |
| Developing Action Plans | |
| Monitor, Evaluate and Revise | |
| Community-Based Research | |
| When is a Survey Appropriate? | |
| What is the Best Technique for Conducting Surveys? | |
| Evaluation of Visioning Processes | |
| Summary and Conclusions | |
| The Role of Community-Based Organizations | |
| Community Development Corporations | |
| Three Generations of CDCs 1960s Activist Organizations | |
| 1970s Specialization 1980s and 1990s | |
| Professionalized Debates Over CDCs | |
| Institutional Support for CDCs | |
| Local Development Corporations Organizational Structure of LDCs | |
| LDC Activities Outcomes and Impacts of LDC Activities | |
| Neighborhood Associations | |
| Community Youth Organizations | |
| Faith-Based Organizations | |
| Summary and Conclusions | |
| Chapter 5 | |
| Workforce Development Issues | |
| Key Concepts and Debates | |
| Community-Based Organizations and Workforce Development | |
| Context for Workforce Development | |
| Key Actors and Institutions | |
| Data on Local Labor Markets | |
| Developing Goals and Strategies | |
| Prepare the Future Workforce | |
| Sustaining the Workforce | |
| Upgrading the Workforce | |
| Expanding the Workforce | |
| Promoting Entrepreneurship | |
| Summary and Conclusions | |
| Social Capital: Building Trust, Norms and Networks | |
| Social Capital Definition and Issues | |
| Key Concepts and Debates | |
| Community-Based Organizations and Social Capital | |
| Social Capital and Local Economic Development | |
| Assessing Social Capital | |
| Summary and Conclusions | |
| Physical Capital: The Role of Housing in Community Development Housing Issues | |
| The Problem Key Concepts and Debates | |
| The Debate over Affordable Housing | |
| The Federal Government Role in Housing | |
| Role of Community-Based Organizations in Housing Provision | |
| Models of Community Based Housing Provision | |
| Summary and Conclusions | |
| Financial Capital: Community Credit Institutions | |
| Financial Capital Issues | |
| Key Concepts and Debates | |
| Community Credit Institutions | |
| Context for Community Credit Institutions | |
| Key Actors and Institutions | |
| Community Economic Development Finance | |
| Assessing Local Credit Markets | |
| Strategies for Building Local Credit Markets | |
| Build Community Development Financial Institutions | |
| Pressure Local Credit Institutions to Serve Community | |
| Use Informal Credit Markets | |
| Identify External Sources of Credit | |
| Summary and Conclusions | |
| Environmental Capital: Controlling Land Development | |
| Forms of Environmental Capital | |
| Aesthetic Qualities/Scenic Resources Agricultural Land Resources | |
| Geographic Setting and Soils Human Health/Environmental Hazards | |
| Plant Communities Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat Surface Water Resources/Water Supply | |
| Groundwater/Water Supply | |
| Land Use and Environmental Capital | |
| Smart Growth and New Urbanism Brownfields | |
| The Roles of Government and the Market | |
| The Government | |
| The Market Community-Based Organizations | |
| What is a Community Land Trust? | |
| What Do Land Trusts Do? | |
| Why Do People Choose Land Trusts? | |
| Do Land Trusts Work? | |
| Summary and Conclusions | |
| Political Capital: Organizing for Power Key Concepts and Debates | |
| Methods Community-Based Organizations and Political Capital Power Models | |
| Information Models | |
| Summary and Conclusions | |
| Cultural Capital | |
| Cultural Capital Definition and Is | |
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