Community Builders

Community Builders

by Gordana Rabrenovic
Community Builders

Community Builders

by Gordana Rabrenovic

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Overview

In the 1980s the failure of corporate strategies and trickle-down economics led to gross inequalities among many U.S. neighborhoods and cities. By examining and comparing a gentrifying and a low-income neighborhood in two medium-sized cities, Gordana Rabrenovic shows how the problems they faced are typical of a number of neighborhoods nationwide. In particular, Rabrenovic focuses on the relationship between neighborhood associations and urban restructuring, arguing persuasively that the success of neighborhood associations depends more on the city in which the neighborhood is located than on the neighborhood itself. Her tale discusses two very different cities with distinct political economies: Albany, a healthy service sector city, and Schenectady, a declining manufacturing city. Acknowledging both the value and limits of collective action, Rabrenovic addresses issues of particular relevance in urban areas, such as land use and crime, as well as the need for neighborhood organizations to forge links with local elites and other neighborhoods, and to engage and bring together poor and minority residents. Her analysis of neighborhood-based mobilization, preservation, and revitalization illuminates the ways in which grassroots issues intersect with prevailing political agendas and the national economy, as well as how issues such as race and class affect daily community politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781439903476
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 04/20/2010
Series: Conflicts In Urban & Regional
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 248
File size: 924 KB

Table of Contents

CONTENTS List of Tables and Maps Acknowledgments ONE - Introduction: Economic Restructuring, Urban Change, and Neighborhoods in Crisis TWO - Neighborhood Associations as Place-Based Collective Actors THREE - Albany, the Restructured City: State Government, Its Political Machine, and Neighborhood Politics FOUR - Center Square and Its Neighborhood Association:Organizing Jor Success FIVE - Arbor Hill· Revitalizing an Inner-City Neighborhood SIX - Schenectady, the Declining City: General Electric, Deindustrialization, and Strategies for the City's Renewal SEVEN - The Stockade: Definding the Gentrified Neighborhood in a Declining Industrial City EIGHT - Hamilton Hill· A Low-Income Neighborhood Struggling for Survival NINE - Neighborhoods, Strategies, and the City Context References Index
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