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- ISBN: 9780415773843 | 0415773849
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/14/2009
Comprehensive and practical, this textbook enables students to connect academic study and professional know-how, and demonstrates how to best plan the rebuilding, revitalization and development of communities utilizing a wide variety of economic and strategic tools.
Rhonda Phillips is Professor and Director of the School of Community Resources and Development, Arizona State University. Her research and practice speciality has focused on community well-being including work with community indicator systems and economic development planning. She is the Editor of Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society. Robert H. Pittman is the Executive Director of the Community Development Institute and the Strategic Growth Institute at the University of Central Arkansas, where he also serves as a Professor in the College of Business. He has provided consulting services to community and economic development organizations and major corporations in the U.S. and around the world.
List of figures | p. xi |
List of tables | p. xiii |
List of boxes | p. xv |
List of contributors | p. xvii |
Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
Editors' introduction | p. xxv |
Foundations | p. 1 |
A framework for community and economic development | p. 3 |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Community development | p. 5 |
Economic development | p. 7 |
The relationship between community and economic development | p. 10 |
Who practices community and economic development? | p. 15 |
Seven theories for seven community developers | p. 20 |
Introduction: why theory? | p. 20 |
Seven key concerns in the community development field | p. 21 |
Asset-based community development | p. 38 |
Introduction | p. 38 |
Definitions of community development | p. 38 |
Needs-based community development | p. 39 |
Asset-based community development | p. 39 |
Challenges of the community development process | p. 46 |
Social capital and community building | p. 49 |
Introduction | p. 49 |
Social capital: what is it? | p. 49 |
Community social capacity: what is it? | p. 50 |
How does community social capacity influence development? | p. 51 |
Intentional action to increase social capacity | p. 51 |
Factors that influence the success of community-building efforts | p. 52 |
Community development practice | p. 58 |
Introduction | p. 58 |
First step: define the community | p. 58 |
Practicing community development | p. 59 |
Community development principles of practice | p. 60 |
The community development process | p. 62 |
How does community development practice relate to economic development? | p. 66 |
What do community developers do? | p. 67 |
Professional standards of ethical practice | p. 69 |
Getting started | p. 70 |
Preparation and planning | p. 75 |
Community visioning and strategic planning | p. 77 |
Introduction | p. 77 |
Process principles | p. 77 |
Phase one: initiation | p. 79 |
Phase two: the stakeholder process | p. 89 |
Establishing community-based organizations | p. 104 |
Introduction | p. 104 |
Fundamentals of forming a community-based organization | p. 104 |
Partner and grant organizations for local community development | p. 106 |
Types of community-based organizations | p. 108 |
Networks | p. 110 |
Public-private partnerships | p. 111 |
Regional initiatives | p. 113 |
Foundations | p. 114 |
Faith-based community organizations | p. 115 |
Developing community leadership skills | p. 119 |
Introduction | p. 119 |
What does it mean to be a leader? | p. 120 |
Community leadership | p. 122 |
Identifying leaders | p. 124 |
Leadership in community and economic development | p. 128 |
Community development assessments | p. 133 |
Introduction | p. 133 |
Why conduct an assessment? | p. 133 |
Quantitative and qualitative data | p. 135 |
Community assessment topics | p. 139 |
SWOT analysis | p. 149 |
The assessment report | p. 150 |
Community asset mapping and surveys | p. 155 |
Introduction | p. 155 |
Asset mobilization | p. 156 |
Methods for mapping asserts | p. 156 |
When is a survey appropriate? | p. 157 |
Mapping capacities | p. 161 |
Assessing your local economy: industry composition and economic impact analysis | p. 166 |
Introduction | p. 166 |
Industry composition: learning about the local/regional economy | p. 167 |
An introduction to economic impact analysis | p. 172 |
Programming techniques and strategies | p. 181 |
Workforce training for the twenty-first century | p. 183 |
Introduction | p. 183 |
Primary and secondary education | p. 184 |
Postsecondary education | p. 184 |
Developing a demand-driven workforce development system | p. 187 |
Federal resources | p. 189 |
State and local resources | p. 190 |
Labor market intermediaries | p. 192 |
Marketing the community | p. 197 |
Introduction | p. 197 |
Marketing definitions | p. 197 |
Components of marketing | p. 198 |
The marketing plan | p. 205 |
The regional approach to marketing | p. 205 |
Retaining and expanding existing businesses in the community | p. 210 |
Introduction | p. 210 |
What does business retention and expansion encompass? | p. 212 |
Benefits and advantages of BRE | p. 214 |
BRE is a team effort | p. 216 |
How successful are BRE programs? | p. 216 |
Entrepreneurship as a community development strategy | p. 220 |
Introduction | p. 220 |
Who is an entrepreneur anyway? | p. 221 |
What are the needs of entrepreneurs? | p. 223 |
How can your community become "entrepreneur-friendly"? | p. 228 |
Minority entrepreneurship | p. 231 |
What is the next step for your community? | p. 232 |
Tourism-based development | p. 236 |
Introduction | p. 236 |
A review of tourism planning models | p. 237 |
Types of tourism planning models | p. 238 |
Getting from here to there: selecting approaches | p. 242 |
Housing and community planning | p. 249 |
Introduction | p. 249 |
The current state of housing | p. 249 |
Housing adequacy | p. 252 |
The role of government in housing | p. 253 |
The role of nonprofits in housing | p. 254 |
Housing affordability | p. 255 |
Housing assistance programs | p. 256 |
Housing needs assessment | p. 260 |
Neighborhood planning for community development and renewal | p. 266 |
Introduction | p. 266 |
Types of neighborhood plans | p. 271 |
The global movement toward participatory neighborhood planning | p. 276 |
Measuring progress: community indicators, best practices, and benchmarking | p. 284 |
Introduction | p. 284 |
Community indicators | p. 285 |
Best practices and benchmarking | p. 286 |
Issues impacting community development | p. 297 |
Community development finance | p. 299 |
Introduction | p. 299 |
Overview of basis community development finance vocabulary | p. 299 |
Doing a deal: who are the players in community development finance? | p. 300 |
Doing a deal: finding sources of money | p. 301 |
Securing grants for community development projects | p. 313 |
Introduction | p. 313 |
Tracking other federal funding | p. 313 |
Tracking foundation and corporate funding | p. 314 |
Hitting the target | p. 314 |
Preparing grant proposals | p. 315 |
Nonprofits, accountability, and sustainability | p. 319 |
The global economy and community development | p. 324 |
Introduction | p. 324 |
Why should people care about globalization? | p. 325 |
International trade | p. 325 |
Foreign direct investment | p. 327 |
The great global job shift and outsourcing | p. 328 |
International corporate activity | p. 330 |
Offshore manufacturing | p. 331 |
Community and economic development strategies in the global economy | p. 331 |
Sustainability in community development | p. 339 |
History of the sustainability concept | p. 339 |
Sustainability definitions and themes | p. 341 |
Action areas | p. 342 |
Process and participation | p. 348 |
Conclusions and observations on the future of community development | p. 352 |
Introduction | p. 352 |
Future challenges | p. 353 |
The ongoing evolution of community development | p. 354 |
Index | p. 355 |
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