Chapter 2

Seven Theories for Seven Community Developers

• Community Development – From Theory to Practice (Community Mobilizers).
• Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam.
• The Century of Social Capital: Rethinking Social Capital.

Chapter 3

Asset-Based Community Development

• Green, G.P. et al. (2001) RRD182 Vision to Action: Take Charge Too, Ames, IA: North Central Regional Center for Rural Development.
• Laboratory of Community and Economic Development (LCED) (2002) Assessing and Developing: Your Community Resources, University of Illinois – Extension, winter 2002 1(3).
• Sustainable Seattle (2004):
• Mapping Techniques: http://youtu.be/q1-dWC-ZjyU

Chapter 4

Social Capital and Community Building

• Clarke, R. (2004) “Bowling Together,” OECD Observer, 242 (March).
• Peter Block (2012) Building Communities.
• Get Involved, Building Communities.

Chapter 5

Sustainability in Community Development

• Shuman, M. (2006) The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competition, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.
• Sustainable Seattle (1998) Indicators of Sustainable Community, Seattle, WA.
• Talberth, J., Cobb, C., and Slattery, N. (2006) The Genuine Progress Indicator 2006: A Tool for Sustainable Development, Oakland: Redefining Progress.
• Wheeler, S.M. (2004) Planning for Sustainability: Creating Livable, Equitable, and Ecological Communities, New York: Routledge.

Chapter 6

The “New” Local

• Business Alliance for Local Living Economies.
• Multistory.
• Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP).
• New Economics Foundation.
• Timebanking UK.
• Time Dollar Youth Court, Washington, DC.

Chapter 7

Community Development Practice

• Schein, E. (1987) Process Consultation: Lessons for Managers and Consultants, vol. 2 (paperback), Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Pub Co.
• Crowdsourcing for the Common Good: A Community Development Approach

Chapter 8

Community Visioning and Strategic Planning

• Learn more about Appreciative Inquiry, a way to gauge and connect with community desires and assets.
• Explore how to integrate sustainability into community visioning.
• Chrislip, D. (2002) The Collaborative Leadership Fieldbook, New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
• Okubo, D. (2000) The Community Visioning and Strategic Planning Handbook, Denver, CO: National Civic League Press.
• Straus, D. and Layton, T. (2002) How to Make Collaboration Work: Powerful Ways to Build Consensus, Solve Problems, and Make Decisions, San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
• Huggins, M., (2012), “Community Visioning and Engagement: Refreshing and Sustaining Implementation,” National Civic Review, Jossey-Bass, Fall 2012.

Chapter 9

Establishing Community-Based Organizations

• Bloom, J. (2010). “Community-owned Businesses.” Main Street Story of the Week, March/April 2010.
• California Center for Regional Leadership.
• Center for Community Change/Organizing for Neighborhood Development.

Chapter 10

Leadership and Community Development

• Community Action Partnership (2014).
• Reason J., Managing the Risk of Organizational Accidents. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company; 1997.
• Explore The Community Leadership Handbook, Framing Ideas, Building Relationships, and Mobilizing Resources by James Krile with Gordy Curphy and Duanne R. Lund. (Fieldstone Alliance Publications, Saint Paul, Minnesota). See www.FieldstoneAlliance.org for more details.

Chapter 11

Community Development Assessments

• Explore a useful resource for community-based service project assessments with the Rotary International’s guide.
• Learn more about assessments with the University of Kansas’ guide.
• Clark, M.J. (2007) Community Assessment Reference Guide, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Cornell-Ohl, S., McMahon, P.M., and Peck, J.E. (1991) “Local Assessment of the Industrial Development Process: A Case Study,” Economic Development Review, 9: 53–57.
• Luther, V. (1999) A Practical Guide to Community Assessment,Lincoln, NE: Heartland Center for Leadership Development.

Chapter 12

Community Asset Mapping And Surveys

• Asset Mapping vs. Needs Assessment.
• John McKnight – “Asset Based Development,” pt. 1.
• John McKnight – “Asset Based Development,” pt. 2.
• Swamp Gravy.

Chapter 13

Understanding Community Economies

• Explore economic impact analysis via the University of Minnesota’s Extension service site.
• Find out more about Gap Analysis and sources of data at the following sites:
• County Business Patterns.
• U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
• U.S. Census Bureau.
• UK National Statistics.
• Discover a world of data at the UN site.

Chapter 14

Human Capital and Workforce Development

• Sample plans of study in all career clusters are available from Career Clusters Institute.
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
• U.S. Census Bureau.
• U.S. Department of Education.
• Sleezer, M. et al. (2004) “Business and Higher Education Partner to Develop a High Skilled Workforce: A Case Study,” Performance Improvement Quarterly, 17: 65–81.
• Judy, R.W., D’Amico, C. and Geipel, G.L. (1997) Workforce 2020: Work and Workers in the 21st Century, Indianapolis, IN: Hudson Institute.
• Government of South Australia (2005) Better Skills. Better Work. Better State: A Strategy for the Development of South Australia’s Workforce to 2010.

Chapter 15

Marketing the Community

• Find a marketing plan template to use, provided by the Louisiana Community Network.
• Learn more about economic development marketing with this resource guide provided by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
• Shively, R. (2004) Economic Development for Small Communities, Washington, DC: National Center for Small Communities.
• Kottler, P., Haider, D., & Rein, I. (2002) Marketing Places, New York: The Free Press.

Chapter 16

Retaining and Expanding Existing Community Businesses

• Explore strategies for increasing high growth enterprises in your community with information from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
• Go deeper with a guide provided by Entergy Arkansas for business retention and expansion.
• Phillips, P.D. (1996) “Business Retention and Expansion: Theory and an Example in Practice,” Economic Development Review, 14: 19–24.
• Pittman, R. and Harris, M. (2007) “The Role of Utilities in Business Retention and Expansion,” Management Quarterly, 48(1): 14-29.
• Sell, R.S. and Leistritz, F.L. (1997) “Asking the Right Questions in Business Retention and Expansion Surveys,” Economic Development Review, 15: 14–18.

Chapter 17

Entrepreneurship as a Community Development Strategy

• Shockley, G., Frank, P., & Stough, R. (2008) Non-Market Entrepreneurship: Interdisciplinary Approaches.  Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar Publishers.
• Sirolli, E. (1999) Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies, Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers.
• Smilor, R.W. (2001) Daring Visionaries: How Entrepreneurs Build Companies, Inspire Allegiance, and Create Wealth, Cincinnati, OH: Adams Media Corporation.
• www.Ashoka.org – a leading nonprofit with worldwide operations to encourage and support social entrepreneurship.
• Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, a research center with a variety of resources and tools for social impact via entrepreneurship.

• Corrected Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Arts, Culture, and Community Development

• Americans for the Arts/Community Development section.
• Community Arts Network.
• Downside Up.

Chapter 19

Housing and Community Development

• Phillips, R., Seifer, B., Antczak, E. (2013) Sustainable Communities: Creating a Durable Local Economy. Oxon, England: Routledge.
• Riis, J. A. (1890) How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York.
• New York: Scribner’s.  A Brief History of Public Housing. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
• See where ecovillages are located the world over.
• Public housing.
• Community planning and development.
• Homeownership and rental vacancy information.
• American Housing Survey – Most comprehensive national housing survey in the United States.
• 2011 Unites States Housing Profile.

Chapter 20

Neighborhood Planning for Community Development and Revitalization

• Learn about the many multifaceted dimensions of neighborhood planning with the Municipal Art Society of New York’s very useful Livable Neighborhoods Toolkit.
• See a sample of a neighborhood planning toolkit provided by the City of Phoenix.
• Arnstein, Sherry. 1969. “A Ladder of Citizen Participation.” Journal of the American Institute of Planners 35(4): 216–224.
• Bowes, J. (2001) A Guide to Neighborhood Planning, Ithaca, NY: City of Ithaca Department of Planning.
• Heiman, M. (1988) The Quiet Evolution: Power, Planning, and Profits in New York State, New York: Praeger, pp. 30–97.
• Jones, B. (1990) Neighborhood Planning: A Guide to Citizens and Planners, Chicago: Planners Press, pp. 1–38.

Chapter 21

Measuring Progress

• Happy Planet Index.
• Discover tools for initiating happiness and well-being in your community.
• Hans Rosling’s “200 countries, 200 years, in 4 minute.”

Chapter 22

Perspectives on Current Issues

• The Community Planning Toolkit sponsored by the UK’s National Lottery Fund.
• Community and Economic Development programs of the United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development.

Chapter 23

Community-Based Energy

• Watch a video on (really) alternative energy sources! Algae, germs, and a host of other sources.
• Explore Denmark’s Carbon Neutral Island.

Chapter 24

Community and Economic Development Finance

• One source of training programs for economic and community development professionals is the National Development Council, a nonprofit organization, that offers certification (the Economic Development Finance Professional (EDFP).
• Seidman, K.F. (2005). Economic Development Finance. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.
• U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development.
• U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration.
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
• U.S. Department of the Treasury CDFI and New Markets Tax Credit.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Brownfields Program.
• U.S. Small Business Administration.

Chapter 25

Conclusions and Observations on the Future of Community Development

• LaLone, M. B. (2012) Neighbors helping neighbors: An examination of the social capital mobilization process for community resilience to environmental disasters. Journal of Applied Social Science,6(2), 209–237. doi:10.1177/1936724412458483
• Phillips, R. (2014) Community Quality of Life Indicators to Avoid Tragedies. In R. Anderson, World Suffering and Quality of Life. Dordrecht: Springer, forthcoming.
• Phillips, R., Seifer, B., & Antczak, E. (2013) Sustainable Communities, Creating a Durable Local Economy. London: Routledge.