NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Robinson, 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
Marland, S. P., Jr. – 1972
City schools must infuse strength into the young which is equal to the malignant forces which threaten their young lives and future happiness. Effective comprehensive planning must begin with an honest estimate of the desired output. Title I and Model Cities are two parallel programs sponsored by the Federal Government which seek to give help to…
Descriptors: Community Change, Disadvantaged, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Chow, Willard T. – 1975
Some historice aspects of Chinese settlement in the San Francisco Bay area are examined in this document and the impact of inner city development on ethnic neighborhoods, particularly in Oakland's Chinatown is discussed. Some developmental side effects are noted, as well as the benefits of ethnic concentration when the latter is the result of…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Community Cooperation, Community Involvement