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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., Ottawa (Ontario). – 1980
The findings and recommendations of a study of potential opportunities to convert under-utilized space in multiple residential projects into play spaces for children are reported. On the basis of site visits, informal interviews and discussions with management from a selected and representative sample of 18 residential projects in the Toronto…
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Check Lists, Children, Facility Case Studies
Peer reviewedRobinson, Tony – Urban Studies, 1996
The potential of the community development corporation (CDC) as a vital component of inner-city development politics is explored and its limitations are outlined. In some neighborhoods, nonprofit CDCs have helped build an alternative social production process and have advanced a new and progressive development regime. (SLD)
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Change, Community Development, Economic Development
Peer reviewedCurtis, Karen A. – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1989
Examines the role of ethnography as a resource in the process of needs assessment in a multi-ethnic, low-income section of Philadelphia. Analyzes the relationship between the targeted neighborhood's socioeconomic characteristics and human service environment and discusses the work done with neighborhood leaders in developing a plan based on the…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Community Cooperation, Community Organizations, Ethnography
Download full textJaffe, Natalie; Freedman, Marc – 1987
This exit report chronicles the last 20 months of the 3-year demonstration phase of the New York City Volunteer Corps (CVC), whose members worked in teams at various sites to either provide human services or do physical work. These final months were characterized by the following factors: (1) a change in Corps leadership; (2) concern about…
Descriptors: Community Services, High Risk Persons, Neighborhood Improvement, Program Costs
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1984
Using a case study approach, the General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed the results of 12 projects funded under the Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) Program, which provided $3 billion in grants to distressed communities for economic revitalization and neighborhood reclamation projects. GAO found that the projects exceeded investment…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Economic Development, Employment Projections, Federal Programs
Wolf, Wendy C.; And Others – 1982
The development and operation of the Federally funded Ventures in Community Improvement Demonstration Project (VICI) and its impact on participant youths and communities are summarized in this report. VICI's purposes were (1) to provide young, minority, inner-city, high school dropouts with intensive skills training in the workplace that could…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Community Benefits, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs
Peer reviewedRavitz, Mel – Social Policy, 1988
Examines the effect of community development projects on Detroit (Michigan) over the past decade. Concludes that community development has failed to increase the number of jobs available and has contributed to neighborhood deterioration. (FMW)
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Change, Community Development, Economic Development
