Urban Problems and Community Development

Book Overview

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In recent years, concerned governments, businesses, and civic groups have launched ambitious programs of community development designed to halt, and even reverse, decades of urban decline. But while massive amounts of effort and money are being dedicated to improving the inner-cities, two important questions have gone unanswered: Can community development actually help solve long-standing urban problems? And, based on social science analyses,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815718756
• ISBN13: 9780815718758
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 644 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"