Books in the Community Development Research and Practice Series series

Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas provides community workers and planners with strategies to develop arts policy that enriches communities and their residents, critically examining the central tensions and complexities in arts policy and paying attention to issues of gentrification and stratification.

Drawing from empirical analyses, case studies, and a synthesis of best practices, this book explores how innovation manifests itself in rural places and how it contributes to entrepreneurial development and resilience.

This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development over the past 50 years. The editors have placed the chapters in major themed areas or issues pertinent to both research and practice of community development.

International Community Development Practice provides readers with practice-based examples of good community development, demonstrating its value for strengthening people power and improving the effectiveness of development agencies, whether these be governmental, non-governmental or private sector.

This book analyses community owned businesses in countries around the world to show successful approaches and important strategies to improve access to essential services in vastly different economic contexts.

This book analyses community owned businesses in countries around the world to show successful approaches and important strategies to improve access to essential services in vastly different economic contexts.

This edited volume focuses on community and rural development theory and practice and the influence of building individual and institutional capacity toward addressing climate change issues at the community level.

This edited volume focuses on community and rural development theory and practice and the influence of building individual and institutional capacity toward addressing climate change issues at the community level.

Community-Built: Art, Construction, Preservation, and Place describes community-built practices through several international and cross-disciplinary case studies.

In Social Capital at the Community Level, John Halstead and Steven Deller examine social capital formation beyond the individual level through a variety of disciplines: planning, economics, regional development, sociology, as well as non-traditional approaches like engineering and built environmental features. Social Capital at the Community Level takes a holistic, interdisciplinary or systems approach to thinking about the community.

In Social Capital at the Community Level, John Halstead and Steven Deller examine social capital formation beyond the individual level through a variety of disciplines: planning, economics, regional development, sociology, as well as non-traditional approaches like engineering and built environmental features. Social Capital at the Community Level takes a holistic, interdisciplinary or systems approach to thinking about the community.

Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas provides community workers and planners with strategies to develop arts policy that enriches communities and their residents, critically examining the central tensions and complexities in arts policy and paying attention to issues of gentrification and stratification.

Community-Built: Art, Construction, Preservation, and Place describes community-built practices through several international and cross-disciplinary case studies.

Schools and Urban Revitalization examines the vital role public schools play as anchor institutions in struggling neighborhoods.

Schools and Urban Revitalization examines the vital role public schools play as anchor institutions in struggling neighborhoods.

Theory, Practice, and Community Development stretches the traditional boundaries and applications of well-established community development theory, and establishes new theoretical approaches rooted in new disciplines and new perspectives on community development.

Theory, Practice, and Community Development stretches the traditional boundaries and applications of well-established community development theory, and establishes new theoretical approaches rooted in new disciplines and new perspectives on community development.

This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development over the past 50 years. The editors have placed the chapters in major themed areas or issues pertinent to both research and practice of community development.