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Three
approaches to Neighborhood Planning (or "models") are:
Rational Planning, Community Organizing, and Assets Based Community
Development (ABCD). Each of these approaches is described with an
emphasis on organizing and ABCD. Yet all are needed in different
circumstances. This section is closed with some advice from the
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative: "The heart is far more
important than the head".
Readings:
Louis
Colombo, "Action Strategies for Community Development",
2003
Reading
#1 (pdf)
John
P. Kretzmann and John L. McKnight, Building Communities from
the Inside Out, A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing A Community's
Assets, (Evanston: Northwestern University, 1993). "Introduction";
Chapter One, "Releasing Individual Capacities"; Chapter
Two, "Releasing the Power of Local Associations and Organizations";
Chapter Five, "Asset-Based Community Development: Mobilizing
an Entire Community".
Reading
#20
Medoff
and Sklar, Streets of Hope, Chapter 2. "Creating the
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative", Chapter 3, "Don't
Dump On Us: Organizing the Neighborhood", Chapter 4, "Planning
the Urban Village".
Reading
#23
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Planning Models
Subtopics inside:
Overview of planning models
Roles of planner
Neighborhood empowerment
Community organizing
Assets Based Community Development
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