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The Community Development Drama in Hong Kong: 1967-77.
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Leung, Joe C. B. – Community Development Journal, 1978
The author reviews the evolution of community development in a social work context in Hong Kong over the past decade, including riots, committees, block development, social actions, and politicization. He also comments on the role of the social worker in this context. (MF)
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Organizations, Foreign Countries, Neighborhood Improvement
Building Community.
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Schwartz, Edward – 1976
The purpose of this eight-unit course is to explore the values and issues of modern urban neighborhoods. It focuses on how community leaders can apply the broad principle of justice to problems of security, reciprocity, and fellowship that face most neighborhoods today. The course is intended for use by community leaders in building community…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Action, Community Development, Course Descriptions
Community Development: Salvation or Suicide?
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Ravitz, 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
Three Views of Central City Redevelopment.
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Tobin, Gary A. – Journal of the Community Development Society, 1982
This article discusses the redevelopment process in the context of views of developers, potential newcomers to a redeveloped area, and the residents of such an area. It is a qualitative accounting of the similarities and differences of these groups and how and why they are either willing or unwilling to participate. (Author/SSH)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, City Government, Community Development
Reclaiming Community: Social Projects for Youth Development.
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Lakes, Richard D. – Educational Foundations, 1995
Offers four themes in the scaffolding of a critical education that advance grassroots activism in learning communities of praxis (scale, ownership, connection, and enterprise). Presents an example of a youth development project that affirms democracy via shared decision making, group motivation, self-esteem, and agenda setting opportunities…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Development, Community Programs, Community Responsibility
[Reinvesting in Black Communities].
Shipp, James – 1977
Some of the issues involved in promoting home ownership among blacks and investment in inner city communities are discussed in this paper. The experiences of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation in revitalizing Bedford Stuyvesant are described. Economic barriers to prospective home ownership are identified and strategies and programs…
Descriptors: Black Businesses, Black Community, Black Employment, Black Housing
Title I, Higher Education Act Program Abstracts.
Miller, Lorna M., Ed. – 1979
The 1979 edition of the Title I, Higher Education Act Program Abstracts is presented. Directed toward state Title I, HEA administrators, the program abstracts are made available in order to encourage nationwide program replication of those tested and evaluated programs that have been conducted with Title I support by institutions of higher…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Business, Career Counseling, Citizen Participation