The Community Development Reader

The Community Development Reader is the first comprehensive reader in the past thirty years that brings together practice, theory and critique concerning communities as sites of social change. With chapters written by some of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, the book presents a diverse set of perspectives on community development. These selections inform the reader about established and emerging community development institutions and practices as well as the main debates in the field. Thesecond edition is significantly updated and expanded to include a section on globalization as well as new chapters on the foreclosure crisis, and emerging forms of community .

1.Communities Develop: The Question is How? James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert PART I. HISTORY AND FUTURE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 2.Swimming against the Tide: A Brief History of Federal Policy in Poor Communities Alice O’Connor 3.Community Control and Development: The Long View James DeFilippis 4. Sites, William, Robert J. Chaskin, and Virginia Parks.2007. Reframing community practice for the 21st century: Multiple traditions, multiple challenges. Journal of Urban Affairs 29(5): 519-541. PART II. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS AND PRACTICE 5.Introduction to Part II James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert 6.More than Bricks and Sticks: Five Components of Community Development Corporation Capacity Norman J. Glickman and Lisa J. Servon 7.Learning from Adversity: The CDC School of Hard Knocks William M. Rohe, Rachel G. Bratt, and Protip Biswas 8.Social Housing Michael E. Stone 9. Immergluck, Dan. Community Response to Foreclosure. Revised from: Immergluck, D. 2008. Community response to the foreclosure crisis: Thoughts on local interventions. Community Affairs Discussion Paper No. 01-08. October 10. Atlanta: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. 10.Community Development Financial Institutions: Expanding Access to Capital in Under-served Markets 81 Lehn Benjamin, Julia Sass Rubin, and Sean Zielenbach 11.The Economic Development of Neighborhoods and Localities Wim Wiewel, Michael Teitz, and Robert Giloth 12. Hoogendoorn, Brigitte, Pennings, Enrico, and Roy Thurik. 2010. What Do We Know About Social Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of Empirical Research. Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. ERS-2009-044-ORG 13. Communities as Place, Face, and Space: Provision of Services to Poor, Urban Children and their Families. Tama Leventhal, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Sheila B. Kamerman. 14. Chung, Connie. 2005. Connecting Public Schools to Community Development. Communities and Banking. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Winter. p. 10-16 15. Owens, Michael Lee. Capacity Building: The case of faith-based organizations. In Building the Organizations that Build Communities: Strengthening the Capacity of Faith-Based and Community-Based Development Organizations, ed. Roland Anglin (Washington, DC: Office of Policy Development & Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development), pp. 127-163. 16. Toward Greater Effectiveness in Community Change: Challenges and Responses for Philanthropy Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Ralph Hamilton, and Harold Richman 17. Mayer, Neil and Langley Keyes. 2005. City Government’s Role in the Community Development System. Washington, DC: Urban Institute 18. Dixon, Jane. 2011. Diverse food economies, multivariant capitalism, and the community dynamic shaping contemporary food systems. Community Development Journal. 46(suppl 1): i20-i35 19. Wheeler, Stephen. 2009. Sustainability in Community Development. in An Introduction to Community Development Phillips, Rhonda and Robert Pittman (Eds). London and New York: Routledge PART III. BUILDING AND ORGANIZING COMMUNITY 20. Introduction to Part III James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert 21. Fisher, Robert, DeFilippis, James, and Eric Shragge. 2010. History Matters: Cannons, Anti- Cannons and Critical Lessons from the Past. From Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press 22.Community Organizing or Organizing Community? Gender and the Crafts of Empowerment Susan Stall and Randy Stoecker 23. Community Building: Limitations and Promises Bill Traynor 24. Saegert, S. (2006) Building Civic Capacity in Urban Neighborhoods: An Empirically Grounded Anatomy. Journal of Urban Affairs, 28:275-294. 25. How Does Community Matter for Community Organizing? David Micah Greenberg 26. Doing Democracy Up-Close: Culture, Power, and Communication in Community Planning Xavier de Souza Briggs 27. Community Organizing for Power and Democracy: Lessons Learned from a Life in the Trenches Harold DeRienzo Part IV. Globalization and Community Development 28. Introduction to Part IV James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert 29. Williamson, Thad, Imbroscio, David, and Gar Alperovitz. 2002. "Globalization and Free Trade" in Making a Place for Community. New York: Routledge 30. Newman, Kathe. Post-Industrial Widgets: Capital Flows and the Production of the Urban. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 33 (2): 314-331 31. Community-based Organizations and Migration in New York City Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán and Victoria Quiroz-Becerra 32. Orozco, Manuel and Rebecca Rouse. 2007. Migrant Hometown Associations and Opportunities for Development: A Global Perspective. Migration Information Source, Migration Policy Institute. Retrieved from: http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=579 33. Hermanson, Jeff. 2004. Global Corporations, Global Campaigns - The Struggle for Justice at Kukdong International in Mexico. American Center for International Labor Solidarity 34. Jurik, Nancy. 2005. The International Roots of Microenterprise Development. in Bootstrap Dreams: U.S. Microenterprise Development in An Era of Welfare Reform. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. PART V. THEORETICAL CONCEPTIONS AND DEBATES 35. Introduction to Part V James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert 36. What Community Supplies Robert J. Sampson 37. Sen, Amatrya. 2003. Development as Capability Expansion. In Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko and A.K. Shiva Kumar (eds.) Readings in Human Development. New Delhi: Oxford University Press 38. Five Faces of Oppression Iris Marion Young 39. Defining Feminist Community: Place, Choice, and the Urban Politics of Difference Judith Garber 40. Squires, Gregory and Charis E. Kubrin. 2006. Privileged Places: Race Opportunity and Uneven Development in Urban America. Shelterforce. Issue #147, Fall 2006 41. Domestic Property Interests as a Seedbed for Community Action John Emmeus Davis 42. The CDC Model of Urban Development: A Critique and an Alternative Randy Stoecker 43. Strengthening the Connections between Communities and External Resources Anne C. Kubisch, Patricia Auspos, Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Karen Fulbright-Anderson, and Ralph Hamilton 44. Conclusion James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert

James DeFilippis is an Associate Professor in the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. He is the author of Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital, and co-author (with Robert Fisher and Eric Shragge) of Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing. Susan Saegert is Professor of Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she was also the first director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society. Dr. Saegert has published five books including Social Capital in Poor Communities with Phil Thompson and Mark Warren (Russell Sage, 2001), and From Abandonment to Hope: Community Households in Harlem , with Jackie Leavitt (Columbia University Press, 1990).