What is Happening in Your Community?: Why Community Development Matters

by Matthew J. Hanka, Sue Ellspermann (Foreword by), Trent Engbers (Contribution by), Ramona Harvey (Contribution by), Mohammed Khayum (Contribution by)

Overview

Communities are not static or stationary organisms. They are fluid and dynamic and change over time. The role of community development in the change and transformation of a community is critical to improving and enhancing the quality of life of the community and its residents. This book examines how community development changes a community and why that change matters, while also examining the relationship between community development and social capital. When a community improves its social capital, change can happen because people can leverage their networks to produce better results for themselves. This book also looks at comprehensive community development and collective impact models and several case studies that utilize these models. It also looks at how the transformation and revitalization of a neighborhood through new housing creates opportunities for people everywhere, and how effective placemaking strategies empower diverse groups of people in a community to reimagine their public spaces and the built environment to be more livable, walkable, creative, and sustainable while fostering greater connections with people in their community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498504911
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	05/03/2021
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	6.41(w) x 9.47(h) x 1.07(d)

About the Author

Matthew J. Hanka is associate professor of political science at the University of Southern Indiana.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: What is Community? What is Community Development? History of Community Development; Models of Community Development

Chapter 2: Social Capital: Dimensions of Social Capital, Social Networks, Critiques of Social Capital

Chapter 3: The Social Capital Implications of Habitat for Humanity Homeownership

Matthew J. Hanka, Mohammed Khayum and Ramona Harvey

Chapter 4: Social Capital and Economic Development: A Neighborhood Perspective

Matthew J. Hanka and Trent Engbers

Chapter 5: Service Learning and Community Development

Anne Statham and Helen Rosenberg

Chapter 6: Adaptive Collaborative Community Transformation (ACCT) model of Comprehensive Community Development and Case Studies: Glenwood, Jacobsville, and Engage Henderson

Chapter 7: What is Collective Impact? Case Studies of Collective Impact: VOICE and Promise Zone

Chapter 8: HOPE VI, New Urbanism, and Social Capital

Matthew J. Hanka and John Gilderbloom

Chapter 9: Placemaking and Social Capital

Conclusion: Lessons learned in community development and collective impact