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Series: Community Development Research and Practice Series
21st Century Philanthropy and Community fills a gap in the literature on philanthropic organizations and how they intertwine with community development. Drawing first on the history of philanthropic funding, Maria Martinez-Cosio and Mirle Bussell look at developments in the last twenty...
To Be Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Community Development Research and Practice Series
For many scholars, the study of community and community development is at a crossroads. Previously dynamic theories appear not to have kept pace with the major social changes of our day. Given our constantly shifting social reality we need new ideas and research that pushes the boundaries of...
To Be Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
This book explores how transportation models can play a role in a changing transport planning and policy making context. Most models are rooted in decades of development work and are geared to offer value-free, academic and explicit knowledge to transport planning experts. However, planning...
To Be Published July 4th 2013 by Routledge
Resilient Downtowns provides a guide to communities in reviving and redeveloping their core districts into resilient, thriving neighborhoods. While the National Main Street program’s four-point approach of organization, promotion, economic restructuring, and design has been standard practice...
To Be Published July 21st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
What is a durable economy? It is one that not only survives, it thrives. How is it created, and what does it take to sustain over time? Sustainable Communities provides insight and answers to these questions. The book addresses some of the most pressing issues challenging communities in their...
To Be Published August 7th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
People organising to protect their environment is not a new phenomenon, but the groups that have been pushing for environmental change since the 1970’s have not convinced sufficient numbers make sustainable decisions or to lead sustainable lives. Governments have serially failed to do the job at...
To Be Published September 11th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Community Development Research and Practice Series
New research in community development shows that institutions matter. Where the private sector disinvests from the inner city, public and nonprofit institutions step in and provide engines to economic revitalization and promote greater equity in society. Schools and Urban Revitalization collects...
To Be Published September 18th 2013 by Routledge
Informed Cities looks at the knowledge brokerage processes between cities and higher education institutions, and in particular evaluates governance mechanisms for monitoring local sustainability and the role of research within this. The first part of the book provides an analysis of tools for...
To Be Published October 23rd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment, and there is now a powerful menu of tools available, from design workshops to electronic maps. The Community Planning Handbook is the essential starting point for all those involved: planners...
To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
