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The Neighborhood Conservation Program in New York City: An Administrative view
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Kurzman, Paul A. – Journal of the Community Development Society, 1970
Large scale efforts in New York City since 1959 to prevent deterioration of urban communities through conservation of marginal neighborhoods have generally shown substantial success. (LY)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Community Development, Neighborhood Improvement, Program Evaluation
Urban Neighborhood Information Systems: Crime Prevention and Control Applications.
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Pattavina, April; Pierce, Glenn; Saiz, Alan – Journal of Urban Technology, 2002
Chronicles the need for and development of an interdisciplinary, integrated neighborhood-level database for Boston, Massachusetts, discussing database content and potential applications of this database to a range of criminal justice problems and initiatives (e.g., neighborhood crime patterns, needs assessment, and program planning and…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, Data Collection, Databases, Needs Assessment
Building Community: The First Five Years of NPCR.
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Weir, Judith, Ed. – 1999
This report evaluates the implementation of the Neighborhood Planning for Community Revitalization (NPCR) project and presents the major lessons learned in the first 5 years of the NPCR's existence. During the past five years, 161 applied research projects have been completed by 70 neighborhood organizations working with 120 students from 10…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Higher Education, Neighborhood Improvement, Program Effectiveness
The Sandtown-Winchester Neighborhood Transformation Initiative: Lessons Learned about Community Building and Implementation.
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Brown, Prudence; Butler, Benjamin; Hamilton, Ralph – 2001
This report documents results of Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester Neighborhood Transformation (NT) Initiative, focusing on key decisions that helped shape the initiative. NT was one of the first attempts to systematically bring together diverse strands of thinking about comprehensive community change to overcome conditions that undermine…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Change, Community Development, Elementary Education
SUMMER COMMUNITY YOUTH WORK PROGRAM. FINAL REPORT.
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GERARD, ROBERT A. – 1966
THE PROGRAM, DESIGNED TO EXPERIMENT WITH NEW METHODS OF EMPLOYING YOUTHS FROM LOW- AND MARGINAL-INCOME FAMILIES, EMPLOYED 170 YOUTHS AGED 16 TO 21 IN IMPROVING AND DEVELOPING VACANT AREAS FOR RECREATION IN DECLINING NEIGHBORHOODS. THE LONGER RANGE GOALS OF THE PROJECT WERE TO ENCOURAGE THE YOUTHS TO PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR SKILLED EMPLOYMENT AND TO…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Indigenous Personnel, Neighborhood Improvement
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
Domestic Volunteer Service Act Amendments of 1979. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Child and Human Development, of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. United States Senate, 96th Congress. First Session on S. 239.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1979
Proceedings are presented of hearings before the Senate Subcommittee on Child and Human Development concerning proposed legislation (S. 239 and S. 374) to revise, improve, and extend certain provisions of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act. Testimony from administrators of current programs under the act and from public witnesses focuses on the…
Descriptors: Activities, Agencies, Agency Role, Budgets