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Nehnevajsa, Jiri – 1971
The Pittsburgh Goals Study about which this speech centers is SO 004 019. Issues identified by the leaders questioned which seem particularly crucial for the next five years in the development of Pittsburgh are: pollution control; public welfare system; drug problem; health services; low cost housing; rapid transit. Two more issues, Metropolitan…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Change, Community Cooperation, Community Leaders
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1987
This report describes a preliminary methodology by which distressed communities may be identified using school districts as the basic unit for the presentation of data. Distress consists of a concentration of the following types of need: (1) economic; (2) social; and (3) educational. Distress was measured by an index that determined a district's…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Needs, Community Problems, Community Study

Nyden, Philip; Wiewel, Wim – American Sociologist, 1992
Asserts that, although research can be a powerful resource in guiding and fueling grass-roots social change, the community-based research enterprise often is contentious. Recommends collaborative research studies in which the researchers and practitioners work together from the project's inception. (CFR)
Descriptors: Action Research, Change Strategies, Community Change, Community Development
Nehnevajsa, Jiri; Coleman, Alan N. – 1971
The main purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which community consensus existed regarding a variety of major changes in Pittsburgh and the extent to which widely differing perspectives of community leaders might contribute to conflict, or at least significant difficulties, on these issues. A pragmatic secondary objective was to…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Change, Community Cooperation, Community Development