Gordana Rabrenovic: Community Builders

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Addressing relevant urban issues, a careful look at the relationships between neighborhood associations and development<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566394093&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1246_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Community Builders</h1> <H2>A Tale of Neighborhood Mobilization in Two Cities</H2> <h3>Gordana Rabrenovic</h3> <P>cloth 1-56639-409-0 $80.50, Mar 96, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT> <br>paper 1-56639-410-4 $33.95, Mar 96, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-43990-347-6 $33.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT> <BR> 248 pp 6x9 12 tables 6 map(s) </P><P>In the 1980s the failure of corporate strategies and trickle-down economics led to gross inequalities among many U.S. neighborhoods and cities. By examining and comparing a gentrifying and a low-income neighborhood in two medium-sized cities, Gordana Rabrenovic shows how the problems they faced are typical of a number of neighborhoods nationwide. In particular, Rabrenovic focuses on the relationship between neighborhood associations and urban restructuring, arguing persuasively that the success of neighborhood associations depends more on the city in which the neighborhood is located than on the neighborhood itself. <P>Her tale discusses two very different cities with distinct political economies: Albany, a healthy service sector city, and Schenectady, a declining manufacturing city. Acknowledging both the value and limits of collective action, Rabrenovic addresses issues of particular relevance in urban areas, such as land use and crime, as well as the need for neighborhood organizations to forge links with local elites and other neighborhoods, and to engage and bring together poor and minority residents. Her analysis of neighborhood-based mobilization, preservation, and revitalization illuminates the ways in which grassroots issues intersect with prevailing political agendas and the national economy, as well as how issues such as race and class affect daily community politics. <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>List of Tables and Maps <br>Acknowledgments <br>1. Introduction: Economic Restructuring, Urban Change, and Neighborhoods in Crisis <br>2. Neighborhood Associations as Place-Based Collective Actors <br>3. Albany, the Restructured City: State Government, Its Political Machine, and Neighborhood Politics <br>4. Center Square and Its Neighborhood Association: Organizing for Success <br>5. Arbor Hill: Revitalizing an Inner-City Neighborhood <br>6. Schenectady, the Declining City: General Electric, Deindustrialization, and Strategies for the City's Renewal <br>7. The Stockade: Defending the Gentrified Neighborhood in a Declining Industrial City <br>8. Hamilton Hill: A Low-Income Neighborhood Struggle for Survival <br>9. Neighborhoods, Strategies, and the City Context <br>References <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1246_au.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Gordana Rabrenovic</b> is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University.</P></td></tr></table> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/urban.html" TARGET="_top">Urban Studies</a> <BR> </p> <BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2> <P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/conflicts.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Conflicts in Urban and Regional Development</a></i>, edited by John R. Logan and Todd Swanstrom. </p><p><i>Conflicts in Urban and Regional Development</i>, edited by John R. Logan and Todd Swanstrom, includes books on urban policy and issues of city and regional planning, accounts of the political economy of individual cities, and books that compare policies across cities and countries.</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566394093&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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