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Bockmeyer, 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

Deaton, Brady J. – Growth and Change, 1975
Argument was for the importance of community development corporations (CDCs) as both tools for rural development planning and mechanisms for alleviating problems and economic impoverishment. (JC)
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Development, Community Involvement, Dropouts
Lloyd, Doug; Downey, Tamara – 2001
Wesley College, a private urban secondary school, established a rural campus in the small town of Clunes, Victoria (Australia), where ninth-grade students could spend a term in a community-based, experientially-derived curriculum to enhance their sense of self and community. A study examined the extent to which Clunes community members regarded…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Development, Community Surveys, Economic Development
Matsuoka, Jon K.; Shera, Wes J. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1991
The impact of resort development on Lana'i island (Hawaii) was investigated through community and island assessments, surveys of households and high school students, and focus groups. Assessment results relate to economic impacts, community services, community satisfaction, quality of life, and social impacts. Recommendations are included for…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Benefits, Community Development, Community Services
Copp, James H. – 1983
Communities with a flexible, open leadership structure may weather energy booms better than communities with old-guard leadership cliques, according to a study of community governance in two small Texas towns. Although similar in location, ethnic composition, population, access to transportation, economic base, and importance in the county,…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Control, Community Development
Salamon, Sonya – Rural Development Perspectives, 1989
Compares traits and attitudes of two Illinois farming communities with populations characterized as "German yeoman" and "Yankee entrepreneur." Discusses how community characteristics shape responses to social and economic changes and affect the course of economic development. (SV)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Development

Luloff, A. E.; Hodges, Donald G. – Rural Sociology, 1992
Examines congruence of attitudes toward economic development between rural community residents and local government officials in rapidly growing northern New Hampshire. Profiles and compares survey subjects' sociodemographic characteristics, community tenure, and general attitudinal disposition. Results highlight substantive differences between…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Citizen Participation, City Officials
Coppedge, Robert O. – 1982
Part of the Small Town Strategy series, this publication is designed to help communities decide whether further local economic growth is possible and desirable. The publication provides a discussion outline to be used to study the costs and benefits of growing or not growing. Questions are listed which should be raised by the community when…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Attitudes, Community Benefits, Community Change

Bridger, Jeffrey C.; Harp, Aaron J. – Journal of Rural Studies, 1990
Uses ideological hegemony concept to analyze one local elite's efforts to "sell" community growth. Expands growth ideology research explaining wealth transfer from public to social elite in local areas. Examines government, media roles of disseminating "pro-growth" ideology with case studies. Property, progress, and community identified as central…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Community Development, Economic Development
Millett, Ricardo A. – 1977
The Model Cities Program is discussed in this report in terms of neighborhood revitalization, citizen participation, and funding. The effects of the program, as a Federal intervention in the social, political and economic problems of the urban poor, are described. The operational effectiveness of the program's participatory mechanisms designed to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Citizen Participation, Community Attitudes, Community Development
Kenyon, Peter – 2001
Over the last 2 decades, the loss of population and businesses in many small, inland, and remote Australian rural communities has intensified, largely because of the stress and uncertainty of volatile world commodity markets. This manual presents a range of survival and revival strategies that some communities have used to build resilient…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Development
Purdy, Bruce J.; And Others – 1977
In an effort to identify and assess the social, economic, and political effects of nuclear power plant construction and operation upon two host communities (Plymouth, Massachusetts and Waterford, Connecticut), a post-licensing review revealed that the primary impact of the nuclear power plants in both communities was an increase in the property…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Benefits, Community Development, Community Services
Sheffield, James R.; And Others – 1974
The five articles in this report explore issues of rural and urban development, formal and nonformal education, and local and national needs in Africa. "Partnership for Productivity" (PFP) and "Brigades in Botswana: Their National Impact" focus on the development of managerial and nonagricultural vocational skills in rural…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Community Attitudes, Community Development, Community Role
Kenyon, Peter, Ed.; Black, Alan, Ed. – 2001
Many small, inland, and remote Australian rural communities continue to lose population and businesses, a trend that has intensified over the last 2 decades. Mean age continues to rise, while the 15-24 age group contracts dramatically. Such declining demographics are caused by the stress and uncertainty of volatile world commodity markets, as well…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Community Action, Community Attitudes