What Is Happening in Your Community? - Why Community Development Matters

This book examines ways in which communities can affect change by providing strategies on creating and developing communities that enables people to live their lives.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: What is Community? What is Community Development? History of Community Development; Models of Community Development
Chapter 2: Social Capital: Dimensions of Social Capital, Social Networks, Critiques of Social Capital
Chapter 3: The Social Capital Implications of Habitat for Humanity Homeownership
Matthew J. Hanka, Mohammed Khayum and Ramona Harvey
Chapter 4: Social Capital and Economic Development: A Neighborhood Perspective
Matthew J. Hanka and Trent Engbers
Chapter 5: Service Learning and Community Development
Anne Statham and Helen Rosenberg
Chapter 6: Adaptive Collaborative Community Transformation (ACCT) model of Comprehensive Community Development and Case Studies: Glenwood, Jacobsville, and Engage Henderson
Chapter 7: What is Collective Impact? Case Studies of Collective Impact: VOICE and Promise Zone
Chapter 8: HOPE VI, New Urbanism, and Social Capital
Matthew J. Hanka and John Gilderbloom
Chapter 9: Placemaking and Social Capital
Conclusion: Lessons learned in community development and collective impact

About the author

By Matthew J. Hanka - Foreword by Sue Ellspermann - Contributions by Trent Engbers; Ramona Harvey; Mohammed Khayum; Helen Rosenberg; Anne Statham and John I. Gilderbloom

Product details

• Authors: Matthew J. Hanka
• Assisted by: Sue Ellspermann (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.05.2021
• EAN: 9781498504911
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0491-1
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Society & culture: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Public Administration, Political Economy, Central / national / federal government policies, Urban communities, Central government policies