This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the chapters in major themed areas or issues pertinent to both research and practice of community development.
The evolution of community development as an area of scholarship and application, and the subsequent founding of the discipline, is vital to capture. At the 50-year mark, it is particularly relevant to revisit issues that reoccur throughout the last five decades and look at approaches to addressing them. These include issues and themes around equity and inclusion, collective impact, leadership and policy development, as well as resilience and sustainability. Community change over time has much to teach us, and this set will provide a foundation for fostering understanding of the history of community development and its focus on community change.
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Community Development.
Table of Contents:
Introduction Section 1 Introduction 1. Local Self-Development Strategies: National Survey Results 2. Defining the Role of Nonprofit Corporations in Community Economic Development 3. Ten Basic Principles of Leadership in Community Development Organizations 4. People First: Factors that promote or inhibit community transformation 5. Assessing factors influencing political engagement in local communities, Cecil Shelton & Lori Garkovich Section 2 Introduction 6. Community Development as Social Movement: A Contribution to Models of Practice 7. Incorporating social justice in tourism planning: racial reconciliation and sustainable community development in the Deep South 8. An ethical principle for social justice in community development practice 9. People-Centered Community Planning 10. Strategies for Citizen Participation and Empowerment in Non-profit, Community-Based Organizations 11. Creating Great Places: The Role of Citizen Participation 12. The Racial Bifurcation of Community Development: Implications for Community Development Practitioners 13. Caught in the Middle: Community Development Corporations (CDCs) and the Conflict between Grassroots and Instrumental Forms of Citizen Participation Section 3 Introduction 14. Applying innovative approaches to address health disparities in native populations: an assessment of the Crow Men's Health Project 15. The role of community-based strategies in addressing metropolitan segregation and racial health disparities 16. The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of the Elderly on a Small Rural Region 17. Bowling Alone but Online Together: Social Capital in E-Communities 18. Can Community Interventions Change Resilience? Fostering Perceptions of Individual and Community Resilience in Rural Places 19. Community Development and Community Resilience: An Integrative Approach 20. Healthy Communities: The Goal of Community Development
About the Author :
Norman Walzer is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Governmental Services, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA.
Rhonda Phillips is Dean, Purdue University Honors College, West Lafayette, USA.
Robert Blair is Professor of Public Administration and Urban Studies at the College of Public Affairs, University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA.
