Includes bibliographical references and index.

Communities develop: the question is how / James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert -- pt 1. History and future of community development . Swimming against the tide: a brief history of Federal policy in poor communities / Alice O'Connor -- Collective ownership and community control and development: the long view / James DeFilippis -- The new (and old) politics of urban problem solving / Xavier de Souza Briggs -- pt 2. Community development institutions and practice. -- More than bricks and sticks: five components of community development corporation capacity / Norman Glickman and Lisa Servon -- Learning from adversity: The CDC school of hard knocks / by William Rohe, Rachel Bratt, and Protip Biswas -- Social ownership of housing / by Michael Stone -- Community development financial institutions / by Benjamin Lehn, Julia Sass Rubin, and Sean Zielenbach -- No progress without protest / by Gregory Squires -- Economic development of neighborhoods and localities / by Wim Wiewel, Michael Teitz, and Robert Giloth -- Communities of place, face and space: provision of services to poor, urban children and their families / Tama Levanthal, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Sheila Kamerman -- Community based organizations and migration in New York City / by Hector Cordero-Guzm n and Victoria Quiroz-Becerra -- Social capital, religious institutions and poor communities / by Michael Foley, John McCarthy and Mark Chaves -- Collaborating to reduce poverty / Michael Rich, Michael Giles and Emily Stern -- Toward greater effectiveness in community change: challenges and responses for philanthropy / by Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Ralph Hamilton, and Harold Richman -- Rural community development: a focus on rural communities in urban societies / Timothy Collins and Christopher Merrett -- pt. 3. Understanding, building, and organizing community. what community supplies / Robert Sampson -- The myth of a purified community / Richard Sennett --Community organizing for power and democracy: lessons learned from a life in the trenches / Harold DeRienzo -- Neighborhood organizing: The importance of historical context / Robert Fisher -- A theology of organizing: from Alinsky to the modern IAF / Mark Warren -- Community organizing: an ecological route to empowerment and power / Paul Speer, and Joe Hughey -- Community building : limitations and promise / William Traynor -- Exploring social capital and civic engagement to create a framework for community building / James Hyman -- Doing democracy up-close: culture, power and communication in community planning / Xavier de Souza Briggs -- Community organizing or organizing community? gender and the crafts of empowerment / Susan Stall and Randy Stoecker -- How do communities matter for community organizing? / David Greenberg -- pt. 4. Theoretical conceptions and debates. -- Domestic property interests as a seedbed for community action / John E. Davis -- Has homeownership been oversold? / Winton Pitcoff -- The five faces of oppression / Iris Marion Young -- Expanding comprehensiveness: structural racism and community building in the United States / Keith Lawrence -- Defining feminist community / Judith Garber -- The CDC model of urban development: a critique and an alternative / Randy Stoecker -- The construction of the local and the limits of contemporary community-building in the United states / James Fraser, Jonathan Lepofsky, Edward Kick and J. Patrick Williams -- Strengthening the connections between communities and external resources / Anne C. Kubisch, Patricia Auspos, Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Karen Fulbright-Anderson, and Ralph Hamilton -- Concluding thoughts / James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert.