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Wright, David J. – 2002
This book analyzes the Neighborhood Preservation Initiative (NPI), which demonstrates how comprehensive community development efforts can be effectively organized to help preserve working class neighborhoods. The NPI is a comprehensive community building initiative active in 10 neighborhoods within nine cities. Its approach is to catch places…
Descriptors: Community Development, Neighborhood Improvement, Preservation, Urban Areas
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
Harkavy, Ira – Equity and Choice, 1990
A university-assisted participatory action project, the West Philadelphia Improvement Corps (WEPIC), has worked with several schools in Philadelphia to develop comprehensive community school projects. WEPIC is now a school-based neighborhood and school revitalization movement that attempts to serve, educate, involve, and activate all members of…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Schools, Demonstration Programs, Neighborhood Improvement
