Urban Problems and Community Development

This book surveys what we currently know and what we need to know about community development's past, current, and potential contributions.The book addresses the history of urban development startegies, the politics of resource allocation, business and workforce development, housing, community development corporations, informal social organizations, schooling, and public security.

William T. Dickens, a senior fellow in the Economics Studies program at the Brookings Institution, was previously a senior economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers and professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Ronald F. Ferguson has taught at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government since 1983 and is senior research associate at Harvard's Wiener Center for Social Policy.