Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood

by Peter Medoff

Book Overview

Using the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in Boston's most impoverished neighborhood as a case stuudy, the authors show how effective organizing reinforces neighborhood leadership, encourages... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896084825
• ISBN13: 9780896084827
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: South End Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Macro social work

An amazing story of a community working together to protect and maintain their neighborhood long forgotten by the city of Boston. Very inspiring.

An inside look at community development

I witnessed much of the transformation described in this book and it is remarkably accurate. This should serve as a guide for community organizers seeking to work in neglected neighborhoods. Too bad Peter Medoff is no longer with us.

Success story in community development, w/difficult odds

A little too much detail. However, this is an inspiring success story about a community in very bad shape, that turned itself around totally, working "from the inside out". Well known in the field of community development, in my area.