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.
This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. The editors have placed the chapters in major themed areas or issues pertinent to both research and practice of community development.
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
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.
