Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in
the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu …

The second edition of Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development teaches
the basic skills, tools, and methods of qualitative research with special attention to the needs …

This article revisits Arnstein's “ladder of citizen participation” focusing on inner-city residents'
perceptions of public input in neighborhood revitalization projects. It draws from data …

This paper explores the way community groups, central to new systems of local governance,
are related to local institutions and how those relations influence them. We draw from two …

Growing local economies, empowering communities, revitalizing downtowns, developing
entrepreneurship, building leadership, and enhancing nonprofits—you can achieve all these …

Specifically dedicated to the skills that social workers need to advance community practice,
this creative book is long overdue. Grounded in the wisdom and evidence of well-honed …

Community-led housing organisations innovate in the resolution of local housing issues by
adopting a specialised local focus and emphasising community leadership and …

Citizen participation is often regarded as a means to increase local democracy. Seldom is
participation viewed as a means to legitimate disruptive practices of states. However …

In From the Outside In, Carolyn T. Adams addresses the role of suburban elites in setting
development agendas for urban municipalities and their larger metropolitan regions. She …

This article offers a detailed analysis of a neighborhood dispute over fencing a public park.
Unlike the archetypal turf battles between longstanding and new neighborhood residents …