Coomunity Development: A Reader is the first comprehensive reader addressing community development. Community development has become a significant component of urban political economies in the past 30 years. The Reader is an ambitious volume bringing togther history, theory and power dynamics. It does not just promote the model of community development but also address the messiness of community development.

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Chapter 1: Communities Develop: The Question is How , by James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert.1

Section I: History and Future of Community Development
Chapter 2, Swimming Against the Tide: A brief History of Federal Policy in Poor Communities , by Alice O'Connor.9
Chapter 3, Collective Ownership and Community Control and Development: The Long View , by James DeFilippis .29
Chapter 4, The new (and old) politics of urban problem solving , Xavier de Souza Briggs .38

Section II: Community Development Institutions and Practice
Chapter 5, Section Introduction , by James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert 45
Chapter 6, More Than Bricks and Sticks: Five Components of Community Development Corporation Capacity , by Norman Glickman and Lisa Servon .48
Chapter 7, Learning from Adversity: The CDC School of Hard Knocks , by William Rohe, Rachel Bratt, and Protip Biswas .74
Chapter 8, Social Ownership of Housing , by Michael Stone 80
Chapter 9, Community Development Financial Institutions , by Benjamin Lehn, Julia Sass Rubin, and Sean Zielenbach 95
Chapter 10, No Progress Without Protest , by Gregory Squires 106
Chapter 11, Economic Development of Neighborhoods and Localities , by Wim Wiewel, Michael Teitz, and Robert Giloth 110
Chapter 12, Communities of Place, Face and Space: Provision of services to poor, urban children and their families , by Tama Levanthal, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Sheila Kamerman .123
Chapter 13, Community Based Organizations and Migration in New York City , by Hector Cordero-Guzman and Victoria Quiroz-Becerra.133
Chapter 14, Social Capital, Religious Institutions and Poor Communities , by Michael Foley, John McCarthy and Mark Chaves 146
Chapter 15, Collaborating to Reduce Poverty , by Michael Rich, Michael Giles and Emily Stern.157
Chapter 16, Toward Greater Effectiveness in Community Change: Challenges and Responses for Philanthropy , by Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Ralph Hamilton, and Harold Richman .167
Chapter 17, Rural Community Development: A Focus on Rural Communities in Urban Societies , by Timothy Collins and Christopher Merrett .177

Section III: Understanding, Building, and Organizing Community
Chapter 18, Section Introduction , by James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert .190
Chapter 19, What "Community" Supplies , by Robert Sampson 194
Chapter 20, The Myth of a Purified Community , by Richard Sennett 206
Chapter 21, Community Organizing for Power and Democracy: Lessons Learned from a Life in the Trenches , by Harold DeRienzo 214
Chapter 22, Neighborhood Organizing: The Importance of Historical Context , by Robert Fisher