Neighborhood Planning and Community-Based Development: The Potential and Limits of Grassroots Action

by William Peterman

Overview

Exploring the promise and limits of grassroots strategies for community organizing, development and planning, this book looks at how they can be used in the revitalization and maintenance of urban neighborhoods. The book presents a number of case studies from the United States, analyzing the reasons for success and failure, and concludes with recommendations in the form of a "tool kit" for planners and community leaders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761911999
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/01/1999
Series:	Cities and Planning
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.48(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Neighborhoods, Communities, Community Development and Neighborhood Planning
Community Empowerment, Organization and Development
Changing Urban Structure
Implications for Neighborhood Development
A Community Confronts Gentrification
The Sport Stadium versus the Neighborhood
Resident Management and Community Empowerment
Rebuilding Roseland and a Block at a Time
Criteria for Doing Successful Neighborhood Development
Doing Planning for Grass-Roots Neighborhood Development

Editorial Reviews

"Bill Peterman offers important insights from his long experience in Chicago on neighborhood planning and community-based development. His case studies offer very useful lessons on success and failure. This is a valuable addition to the literature on urban neighborhoods."

W. Dennis Keating

Explores the promise and limits of bottom-up, grass-roots strategies of community organizing, development, and planning as blueprints for successful revitalization and maintenance of urban neighborhoods. Peterman (geography, Chicago State U.) proposes conditions that need to be met and argues that neighborhood development depends not only on local actions, but also on the ability of local groups to marshal resources and political will at levels above that of the neighborhood itself. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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