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Neighborhood Organizations: Seeds of a New Urban Life
By Michael R. Williams
300 pages
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- Greenwood Press
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- Westport, CT
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Synopsis
"Williams's past experience as a community organizer for havenots' is clearly apparent in this carefully researched book, as his conviction that neighborhood organizations can play a key role in revitalizing urban life. After examining the setting for neighborhood organizations and discussing how neighborhoods change, he delves into the internal dynamics of those organizations. Chapters are devoted to various problems that neighborhood organizations have defined, such as crime and education; a final ...
"Williams's past experience as a community organizer for havenots' is clearly apparent in this carefully researched book, as his conviction that neighborhood organizations can play a key role in revitalizing urban life. After examining the setting for neighborhood organizations and discussing how neighborhoods change, he delves into the internal dynamics of those organizations. Chapters are devoted to various problems that neighborhood organizations have defined, such as crime and education; a final section analyzes neighborhood groups as conflict managers and mediators. The book offers a good survey of literature on neighborhood organizations, both theoretical and applied, and provides readers a unique bibliography of selected materials, with brief comments about each major topic; each chapter also has extensive notes and bibliography. Both grass-roots organizers and professionals in social work and city management will find this book useful." Choice
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Table of contents
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- Recent Titles in Contributions in Political Science Series editor: Bernard K. Johnpoll ii
- Title Page iii
- Copyright Acknowledgments v
- CONTENTS vii
- Contents ix
- PREFACE xi
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
- PART I - The Setting for Neighborhood Organization 1
- 1 - REDEFINING URBAN DECLINE AND REVITALIZATION 3
- 2: THE MEANINGS OF NEIGHBORHOOD 29
- 3 Democratic Culture and Leftist Ideological Remnants 51
- PART II The Dynamics of Neighborhood Organization 69
- 4: HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS AND PRESENT CHARACTERISTICS 71
- 5: LEADERSHIP 83
- 6: OTHER GROUP PROCESS VARIABLES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATION 107
- PART III The Tasks of Neighborhood Organizations 123
- Recent Titles in Contributions in Political Science Series editor: Bernard K. Johnpoll ii
- Title Page iii
- Copyright Acknowledgments v
- CONTENTS vii
- Contents ix
- PREFACE xi
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
- PART I - The Setting for Neighborhood Organization 1
- 1 - REDEFINING URBAN DECLINE AND REVITALIZATION 3
- 2: THE MEANINGS OF NEIGHBORHOOD 29
- 3 Democratic Culture and Leftist Ideological Remnants 51
- PART II The Dynamics of Neighborhood Organization 69
- 4: HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS AND PRESENT CHARACTERISTICS 71
- 5: LEADERSHIP 83
- 6: OTHER GROUP PROCESS VARIABLES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATION 107
- PART III The Tasks of Neighborhood Organizations 123
- 7: NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT STRATEGIES 125
- 8: THE ENERGY CRISIS 157
- 9: CRIME 173
- 10 - NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS 185
- PART IV The Promise of Neighborhood Organizations 203
- 11: THE ORGANIZATION AS CONFLICT MANAGER 205
- 12: THE ORGANIZATION AS MEDIATING INSTITUTION 223
- 13: THE PROMISE OF NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATIONS FOR URBAN VITALITY 249
- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY 261
- INDEX 271
- About the Author 279