INNER-CITY INNOVATOR - THE NONPROFIT COMMUNITY-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Authors
Citation
T. Robinson, INNER-CITY INNOVATOR - THE NONPROFIT COMMUNITY-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Urban studies, 33(9), 1996, pp. 1647-1670
Citations number
95
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Environmental Studies","Urban Studies
Journal title
ISSN journal
0042-0980
Volume
33
Issue
9
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1647 - 1670
Database
ISI
SICI code
0042-0980(1996)33:9<1647:II-TNC>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
This paper examines the potential and the limitations associated with the rise of the community development corporation (CDC) as a vital com ponent of inner-city development politics, Grass-roots mobilisation in impoverished American neighbourhoods has sometimes resulted in the de construction of the high-rise 'growth machine' in those neighbourhoods and in the defence of 'home turf' against redevelopment and gentrific ation, Successful turf defence, however, has rarely been followed by a n alternative, community-sensitive means of inner-city development, Re cently, this dilemma has been addressed by the rise of an innovative i nstitution capable of connecting community, capital and government in the pursuit of sensitive neighbourhood regeneration: the non-profit CD C, In some inner-city neighbourhoods, CDCs have helped to build an alt ernative social production process and have advanced elements of a new , progressive development regime.