50 Years of Community Development Vol I

Norman Walzer is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Governmental Services, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA.Rhonda Phillips is Dean, Purdue University Honors College, West Lafayette, USA.Robert Blair is Professor of Public Administration and Urban Studies at the College of Public Affairs, University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA.

• IntroductionSection 1 Introduction1. Observed Community Development Patterns: 1950-19702. The Basics: What's Essential about Theory for Community Development Practice?3. Theorizing Community Development4. The Power of Community5. Theories of Poverty and Anti-Poverty Programs in Community Development6. The Community Capitals Framework: an empirical examination of internal relationships7. Social Well-being and Community8. Perspective in Retrospect: Community Development During the Sixties9. Saul D. Alinsky's contribution to community developmentSection 2 Introduction10. Spiraling-Up: Mapping Community Transformation with Community Capitals Framework11. Rural retail business survival: Implications for community developers12. Integrating research with local community‐development programs13. Building Entrepreneurial Communities: The Appropriate Role of Enterprise Development Activities14. An Effective Process for Rural Planning15. Developing a Community Perspective on Rural Economic Development Policy16. Cooperatives in Rural Community Development: A New Framework for Analysis17. Rural development policy in the United States: a critical analysis and lessons from the “still birth” of the rural collaborative investment program18. Achieving Sustainable Economic Development in Communities19. What does “Smart Growth” Mean for Community Development?20. An Interactional Approach to Place-Based Rural Development21. Measuring community development: what have we learned?