Research Catalog

Title

A neighborhood finds itself.

Author

Abrahamson, Julia, 1909-

Publication

New York, Harper [1959]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

370 pages; 22 cm

Summary

The story of how citizens worked together to keep their neighborhood from deteriorating into a slum.

Subject

• Hyde Park (Chicago, Ill.)
• Community organization > Case studies
• Urban renewal
• Urban Renewal
• Neighborhood improvement > Illinois > Chicago > Citizen participation
• Service social communautaire > Cas, Études de
• Rénovation urbaine
• Organisation communautaire > Études de cas
• urban renewal
• Urban renewal
• Community organization
• Community organization > Illinois > Chicago > Case studies
• Neighborhoods > Illinois > Chicago > Case studies
• Sociologie urbaine > États-Unis
• Kenwood (Chicago, Ill.)
• Illinois > Chicago > Hyde Park
• Illinois > Chicago > Kenwood

Genre/Form

• Case Reports
• Case studies
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 358-360.

Contents

Pt. 1. A proud neighborhood begins to crumble. The community : birth, growth, decline -- Facing the problems -- Pt. 2. Fingers in the dike. Preliminaries to action -- The program gets under way -- The first year -- First steps in planning : the community appraisal study -- Grass-roots organization and the grass roots -- Developing leadership -- Organizational growing pains -- Marshaling resources -- The effort to stop blight -- Getting new and improved facilities and services -- Pt. 3. New forces are committed to the battle. New tools and new resources -- The urban renewal program -- New problems and new solutions -- Citizen participation in urban renewal -- The challenge of an interracial community -- The community within the city -- Pt. 4. A look at results. The community today -- Appraisal.

ISBN

• 081960268X
• 9780819602688

LCCN

59007061

OCLC

• ocm00546085
• 546085
• SCSB-291877

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library