Rebuilding Community: Policy and Practice in Urban Regeneration

by Joan Smith, J. Pierson (Editor)

Overview

Our poorest urban neighbourhoods experience economic and social difficulties that uniquely affect the lives of those who live there. This volume examines the policies and initiatives now underway on both sides of the Atlantic to revitalize those areas. With contributors from the US, France and the UK the volume explains the nature of specific community building programmes and explores critical issues such as the role of partnerships and the importance of race and gender in urban regeneration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349411115
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2001
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

KAREN FULBRIGHT-ANDERSON IRENE BRUEGEL Co-Director, Local Economy Policy Unit, South Bank University, London GARY CRAIG Professor of Social Justice, University of Hull JAMES P. CONNELL Director, Institute of Research and Evaluation in Education JULIEN DAMON Head of Research, Caisse Nationale des Allocation Familiales, Paris ANNE C. KUBISH Director, Aspen Roundtable for Comprehensive Community Initiatives KEITH LAWRENCE Research Officer, Aspen Roundtable for Comprehensive Community Initiatives, New York City CHRISTOPHER MILLER Senior Lecturer, University of West of England, Bristol PETER NORTH Research Assistant, Local Economy Unit, South Bank University, London SARAH PEARSON FRANK C. PIERSON Lead Organizer, South West Industrial Areas Foundation, Tucson, Arizona MERCER L. SULLIVAN Associate Professor, Rutgers University, Newark REBECCA STONE Research Officer, Chapin Hall Centre for Children, University of Chicago, Chicago

Table of Contents

List of Tables Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; J.Smith & J.Pierson Comprehensive Community Initiatives in the United States; A.C.Kubish & R.Stone Expanding Comprehensiveness: Toward a Framework of Structural Racism for Urban Community Revitalization in the United States; K.Lawrence Community Development Corporations in the United States: Housing Development as an Anchor for Urban Regeneration; M.L.Sullivan Evaluating Complex Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Theory, Measurement and Analysis; A.C.Kubish, J.P.Connell & K.Fulbright-Anderson Power Before Program: Broad Base Organizing and the Work of the Industrial Areas Foundation; F.C.Pierson Community, Urban Regeneration and National Renewal; C.Miller Community Participation in Strategic Partnerships in the United Kingdom; S.Pearson & G.Craig Urban Regeneration and Citizenship in 'Sensitive Areas' in France; J.Damon Communitarianism and Gender in the New Urban Policy; J.Smith Community Empowerment versus Community Organizing: Rethinking Community and Resistance in the Era of Partnership and the Third Way; P.North & I.Bruegel Rebuilding Communities: Common Themes and Approaches; J.Pierson Index