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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Discerning
books on community development that have influenced my thinking, I find myself
asking what is the question behind the question when one asks for general literature
on community development.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 12pt;">In Chicago the ICA is
wrestling with what does it look like to do <u>sustainable
</u>community development (adding environmental considerations to influencing
community change). What are people discovering that is helpful
literature on ‘<i>sustainable</i> community development?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">The
following books have influenced my thinking on community development:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Diers,
Jim, <b><i>Neighbor
Power: Building community the Seattle
Way</i></b> (2004)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hopkins, Rob, <b><i>Transition Handbook: from oil dependency to local resilience</i> </b>(2008). Pioneered in Ireland/England since 2006,
transition communities are now in 43 countries and 1,130 initiatives (including
150 in the United States). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">James,
Sarah and Lahti, Torbjorn, <b><i>The
Natural Step for Communities: how cities
and towns can change to sustainable practices</i></b>, 2004. Piloted in Scandinavia, this approach has been especially effective for changing large public institutions as well as geographical communities. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Kaplan, Allan, <b><i>The
Development Practitioners Handbook</i></b> (1996) and </span><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Artists of the
Invisible – Development Practitioners and Social Practice</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> (2002). Allan is from Cape Town, South Africa. You can watch a wonder-filled presentation he
gave at Schumacher College in 2011 on “Reading the nature of process from a
process of nature” at this link: <a href="http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/reading-the-nature-of-process-from-a-process-of-nature">http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/reading-the-nature-of-process-from-a-process-of-nature</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Kretzmann,
John and McKnight, John, <i><b>Building
Communities from the Inside Out: A path
toward finding and mobilizing a community’s assets</b> </i>(1993). The community assets survey approach described
in this book launched the ABCD (Asset-Based Community Development) approach</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">*****</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">We have been telling the
people that this is the Eleventh Hour<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Now we must go back and
tell the people this is the Hour. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">And there are things to be
considered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Where are you living? What are you doing? Are you in right relation?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Where is your water? Know your garden.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">It is time to speak your
truth. Create your community. Be good to each other.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">And do not look outside
yourself for the leader. This could be a
good time!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">There is a river flowing
very fast.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">It is so great and swift
that there are those who will be afraid.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">They will try to hold on to
the shore.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">They will feel they are
being torn apart and they will suffer greatly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial">Know the river has a destination.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">The elders say we must let
go of the shore, and push off and into the river,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Keep our eyes open, and our
head above the water.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">See who is in there with
you and Celebrate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">At this time in history, we
are to take nothing personally. Least of
all, ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">For the moment that we do,
our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">The time of the lone wolf
is over.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Gather yourselves!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Banish the word “struggle”
from your attitude and your vocabulary. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">All that you do now must be
done in a sacred manner and in celebration.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">We are the ones we have
been waiting for.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">~~ Alice Walker from <u>We are the Ones We Have
Been Waiting For</u> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></p>
<!--EndFragment-->On Jun 28, 2014, at 4:34 PM, William Schlesinger via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>I've liked Rothman's work on locality development. Parallels our historical approach and relates it to both community organizing and planning approached.</div><div><br></div><div><i><font style="color:#333333">Bill Schlesinger</font></i></div><div><i><font style="color:#333333"><a href="mailto:pvida@whc.net">pvida@whc.net</a></font></i></div></div><br><br>Frank Cookingham via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><div><span>The best book is Bryant Myers, Walking with the Poor (revised and expanded edition), 2011, Orbis Books.</span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>John Friedmann, Empowerment: The Politics of Alternative Development, 1992, Blackwell.</span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, 1999, Oxford University Press.</span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Abhijit V. Banerjee and Ester Duflo, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, 2011, Public Affairs Books.</span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor ... And Yourself, 2009, Moody Publishers.</span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>read Easterly and Sachs at the same
time to see two very different approaches:</span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, 2006, Penguin Books.</span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, 2005, Penguin Books.</span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Peace, Frank Cookingham, retired evaluator of international community development</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, June 27, 2014 12:30 PM, David Dunn via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br>
</font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv7797354568">Hi all.<div><br></div><div>An old friend has asked for recommendations on: </div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">general literature on community development? I need to get out of project-think and into a more comprehensive mode. </div></blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div>Any suggestions that I should pass on.</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal;"><span style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span><span style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">David Dunn</span><br style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">740 S Alton Way 9B</span><br style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Denver, CO 80247</span><br style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">720-314-5991</span><br style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><a href="mailto:dmdunn1@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dmdunn1@gmail.com">dmdunn1@gmail.com</a></span></span></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>