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What does community development mean to you?
”…underdevelopment is not the absence of development; it is the inevitable product of an oppressed population’s integration into the world market economy and political system…” — Manning Marable...
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Community Development in a World of long-term Displacement
Photo credit: Tinne Van Loon, Everyday Egypt Contrary to the images of desolate refugee camps and rickety boats pulling up to Italy’s shores, most of the world’s refugees do not live in sprawling...
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A Reimagined Role: Community Development for Those at the Periphery
Photo credit: Kelly A. Burkhardt Photography/City of Philadelphia It’s one of our first dates together, and it’s a fairly typical one: Italian food and walking around the North End neighborhood of...
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Cultivating Community Development through Civic Consciousness
Photo credit: The March for Our Lives / Facebook Do you remember those moments that brought you to the work? Moments that pained you and shook you to the core? Those experiences where you lost your...
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Fertile Ground for Community Development in the Bronx
Photo credit: Axel Drainville / Flickr The Bronx is burning. It has been decades since the infamous line branded the borough, but this is an image countless individuals have conjured up when I have...
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The Slow Convergence of “Community” and “Economic” Development
Residents of Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) land trust homes. Credit: Cheryl Senter / Next City It is not uncommon to hear planners and urbanists use the terms “community development”...
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Community Development Transcends Scale
Caption: Photo of a crowd of people filling and protesting on a city street. Many are carrying signs. The front row of signs are a large pair of eyes on 8 different panels next to each other. Photo...
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Demolishing Silos: Four community development approaches to address big...
Check out other posts in this series: What Does Community Development Mean to You? As a community health planner, I see community development as a space where engagement can come alive and inform the...
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Co-Opting Change: Community Development in the Context of Neoliberalism
Caption: 8 people are seated on a red-carpeted stage and one additional speaker standing at a podium to the left of the seated people. A projection of a presentation from the UN-HABITAT program is on...
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Embedding Community Development in Communities
Check out other posts in this series: What Does Community Development Mean to You? In a 1987 report to the Ford Foundation, Neil Pierce and Carol Steinbach write that Community Development Corporations...
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