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



December 1999 | 208 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

"Finally a book that contextualizes community and neighborhood development and planning in a progressive but realist fashion. Peterman provides community and neighborhood planners with preassessment criteria and a methodological tool-kit to help ensure future success. This book is invaluable to neighborhood and community development planning courses and will provide a useful adjunct to social planning and social work courses."

--Mickey Lauria, University of New Orleans

"Bill Peterman has written a passionate treatise on neighborhood planning tempered by more than 20 years of front line experience. The result is a powerful praxis that can guide planners, community activists, and theoreticians who are concerned with making community-building a reality."

--Barbara Ferman, Professor of Political Science, Temple University

"Bill Peterman's critical analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of America's expanding community development movement should be required reading for all community activists, urban planners, policy analysts and municipal officials! Peterman's rich insights and thoughtful recommendations regarding how community-based planning and development can lead to a broader popular movement for greater social equality deserve the immediate attention of all those concerned about the future of U. S. cities."

--Kenneth M. Reardon, Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

" 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 Professor and Associate Dean College of Urban Affairs,

Cleveland State University

This book 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 proposes conditions that need to be met for bottom-up strategies to succeed. Successful 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. While he supports community-based initiatives, he argues that there are limits to what can be accomplished exclusively at the grass-roots level, where most efforts fail.

Neighborhood Planning and Community-Based Development should be of special interest to individuals who are directly involved in neighborhood planning and development activities. With case studies that include the issues of gentrification, public housing, government-sponsored development of sports facilities, housing management control and racial diversity, the book takes a look at accomplishing successful neighborhood-based planning and development.


 
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

"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
Cleveland State University

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