An Introduction to

Community Development

2nd Edition

Students

Recommended Resources and Links

Chapter 1

A Framework for Community and Economic Development

  • CDC Oral History Project.
  • Upton Sinclair (1906) The Jungle. Chicago: Doubleday, Jabber and Company.
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
  • Norman Krumholz and John Forester (1990) Making Equity Planning Work. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Chapter 4

Social Capital and Community Building

Chapter 5

Sustainability in Community Development

  • Shuman, M. (2006) The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competition, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.
  • Sustainable Seattle (1998) Indicators of Sustainable Community, Seattle, WA.
  • Talberth, J., Cobb, C., and Slattery, N. (2006) The Genuine Progress Indicator 2006: A Tool for Sustainable Development, Oakland: Redefining Progress.
  • Wheeler, S.M. (2004) Planning for Sustainability: Creating Livable, Equitable, and Ecological Communities, New York: Routledge.

Chapter 7

Community Development Practice

Chapter 8

Community Visioning and Strategic Planning

  • Learn more about Appreciative Inquiry, a way to gauge and connect with community desires and assets.
  • Explore how to integrate sustainability into community visioning.
  • Chrislip, D. (2002) The Collaborative Leadership Fieldbook, New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
  • Okubo, D. (2000) The Community Visioning and Strategic Planning Handbook, Denver, CO: National Civic League Press.
  • Straus, D. and Layton, T. (2002) How to Make Collaboration Work: Powerful Ways to Build Consensus, Solve Problems, and Make Decisions, San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
  • Huggins, M., (2012), “Community Visioning and Engagement: Refreshing and Sustaining Implementation,” National Civic Review, Jossey-Bass, Fall 2012.

Chapter 10

Leadership and Community Development

  • Community Action Partnership (2014).
  • Reason J., Managing the Risk of Organizational Accidents. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company; 1997.
  • Explore The Community Leadership Handbook, Framing Ideas, Building Relationships, and Mobilizing Resources by James Krile with Gordy Curphy and Duanne R. Lund. (Fieldstone Alliance Publications, Saint Paul, Minnesota). See www.FieldstoneAlliance.org for more details.

Chapter 11

Community Development Assessments

  • Explore a useful resource for community-based service project assessments with the Rotary International’s guide.
  • Learn more about assessments with the University of Kansas’ guide.
  • Clark, M.J. (2007) Community Assessment Reference Guide, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  • Cornell-Ohl, S., McMahon, P.M., and Peck, J.E. (1991) “Local Assessment of the Industrial Development Process: A Case Study,” Economic Development Review, 9: 53–57.
  • Luther, V. (1999) A Practical Guide to Community Assessment,Lincoln, NE: Heartland Center for Leadership Development.

Chapter 13

Understanding Community Economies

Chapter 14

Human Capital and Workforce Development

  • Sample plans of study in all career clusters are available from Career Clusters Institute.
  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • U.S. Census Bureau.
  • U.S. Department of Education.
  • Sleezer, M. et al. (2004) “Business and Higher Education Partner to Develop a High Skilled Workforce: A Case Study,” Performance Improvement Quarterly, 17: 65–81.
  • Judy, R.W., D’Amico, C. and Geipel, G.L. (1997) Workforce 2020: Work and Workers in the 21st Century, Indianapolis, IN: Hudson Institute.
  • Government of South Australia (2005) Better Skills. Better Work. Better State: A Strategy for the Development of South Australia’s Workforce to 2010.

Chapter 15

Marketing the Community

Chapter 16

Retaining and Expanding Existing Community Businesses

  • Explore strategies for increasing high growth enterprises in your community with information from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
  • Go deeper with a guide provided by Entergy Arkansas for business retention and expansion.
  • Phillips, P.D. (1996) “Business Retention and Expansion: Theory and an Example in Practice,” Economic Development Review, 14: 19–24.
  • Pittman, R. and Harris, M. (2007) “The Role of Utilities in Business Retention and Expansion,” Management Quarterly, 48(1): 14-29.
  • Sell, R.S. and Leistritz, F.L. (1997) “Asking the Right Questions in Business Retention and Expansion Surveys,” Economic Development Review, 15: 14–18.

Chapter 17

Entrepreneurship as a Community Development Strategy

  • Shockley, G., Frank, P., & Stough, R. (2008) Non-Market Entrepreneurship: Interdisciplinary Approaches.  Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar Publishers.
  • Sirolli, E. (1999) Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies, Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers.
  • Smilor, R.W. (2001) Daring Visionaries: How Entrepreneurs Build Companies, Inspire Allegiance, and Create Wealth, Cincinnati, OH: Adams Media Corporation.
  • www.Ashoka.org – a leading nonprofit with worldwide operations to encourage and support social entrepreneurship.
  • Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, a research center with a variety of resources and tools for social impact via entrepreneurship.

Chapter 19

Housing and Community Development

Chapter 20

Neighborhood Planning for Community Development and Revitalization

  • Learn about the many multifaceted dimensions of neighborhood planning with the Municipal Art Society of New York’s very useful Livable Neighborhoods Toolkit.
  • See a sample of a neighborhood planning toolkit provided by the City of Phoenix.
  • Arnstein, Sherry. 1969. “A Ladder of Citizen Participation.” Journal of the American Institute of Planners 35(4): 216–224.
  • Bowes, J. (2001) A Guide to Neighborhood Planning, Ithaca, NY: City of Ithaca Department of Planning.
  • Heiman, M. (1988) The Quiet Evolution: Power, Planning, and Profits in New York State, New York: Praeger, pp. 30–97.
  • Jones, B. (1990) Neighborhood Planning: A Guide to Citizens and Planners, Chicago: Planners Press, pp. 1–38.

Chapter 22

Perspectives on Current Issues

Chapter 23

Community-Based Energy

Chapter 24

Community and Economic Development Finance

Chapter 25

Conclusions and Observations on the Future of Community Development

  • LaLone, M. B. (2012) Neighbors helping neighbors: An examination of the social capital mobilization process for community resilience to environmental disasters. Journal of Applied Social Science,6(2), 209–237. doi:10.1177/1936724412458483
  • Phillips, R. (2014) Community Quality of Life Indicators to Avoid Tragedies. In R. Anderson, World Suffering and Quality of Life. Dordrecht: Springer, forthcoming.
  • Phillips, R., Seifer, B., & Antczak, E. (2013) Sustainable Communities, Creating a Durable Local Economy. London: Routledge.