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Urban Neighborhoods in Transition.
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Goetze, Rolf – Social Policy, 1979
The effects of such demographic variables as the baby boom and childless marriages on the demand for urban housing are discussed. (RLV)
Descriptors: Community Change, Demography, Housing Needs, Neighborhood Improvement
Reagan vs. the Neighborhoods.
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Boyte, Harry C. – Social Policy, 1982
Describes community based, voluntary neighborhood revitalization projects in New York and Philadelphia. Discusses the effects of Reagan Administration cutbacks and seeming indifference to such projects which appears to be contradictory to the Republican party platform of 1980 pledging aid for self-helping and cooperative community efforts to…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Community Responsibility, Federal Aid, Neighborhood Improvement
Neighborhoodism: A Conflict in Values.
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Schwartz, Edward – Social Policy, 1979
If the neighborhoods' movement faces up to the implications of one of its important claims, namely, that by preserving communities, a city can promote better values than by destroying them, then it must determine how the process of political education and organizing can foster better attitudes throughout the community. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Attitudes, Community Development, Cultural Differences
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
Neighborhood Development: Issues and Models.
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Lenz, Thomas J. – Social Policy, 1988
Argues that Neighborhood Development Organization (NDO) staffs and volunteers have a faulty understanding of the political economies of poor urban communities, and have adopted a free market orientation. Recommends an alternative "organizing-driven" model of community development. (FMW)
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Community Action, Community Development, Economic Development