Builds upon the narratives of community development activists to describe how they bring about affordable, quality housing, commercial opportunities and empowerment within poor areas.
Honorable Mention, 2003 Paul Davidoff Award presented by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair builds upon narratives provided by leaders of community-based development organizations (CBDOs) to describe how they bring about affordable, quality housing, commercial opportunities, and employment within poor areas. The book illustrates both the obstacles CBDOs face and how these obstacles are overcome, in part by leveraging resources for social change projects from foundations, government and intermediaries. Guiding the effort of the developmental activists is an organic theory that explains what can and should be accomplished. The material extends new institutionalism models of inter-organizational behavior.
Table of Content
List of Tables
Preface
1. Working in the Niche: The Community-Based Development Model
2. Negotiating an Environment for Community Renewal
3. Confronting Ideological Tensions
4. Responding to the Public Sector
5. Interacting with Intermediaries, Foundations, and Other Support Organizations
6. Being a Conscience and a Carpenter: An Organic Theory of Community-based Development
7. The Art of Leveraging
8. Building a Movement by Creating an Industry
9. Creating a Common Culture within the Community Development Movement
10. Traditional and Coalition Advocacy
11. Structuring Complex Interorganizational Systems
Appendix: Learning to Hear and Hearing to Learn: Discussions of Research Methodology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Herbert J. Rubin is Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Applied Social Research and The Dynamics of Development in Rural Thailand and coauthor (with Irene Rubin) of Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data and Community Organizing and Development.
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