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Peer reviewedBockmeyer, Janice L. – Urban Studies, 2000
Examines Detroit's economic development policy-making culture and assesses its impact on the formation of the community development corporation (CDC) network that dominated Empowerment Zone (EZ) planning in the initial stages. Analyzes the importance of distrust between City Hall, business interests, and community residents in consolidating CDC…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Development
Potapchuk, William R.; Crocker, Jarle P.; Boogaard, Dina; Schechter, William H. – 1998
Social capital is the glue that holds a community together. It is the network of relationships among persons that can be used to get things done. Social capital is a necessary, but not sufficient, ingredient of community building. A community must mobilize its social capital and the mechanisms of its infrastructure to face and resolve collective…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Programs, Democracy, Local Government
