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LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES  
Part I: Setting the Framework
1 Introduction and Course Overview: The Diversity of Urban Neighborhoods    
2 A Framework for Analyzing Urban Neighborhoods    
3 Neighborhoods and Community I    
4 Neighborhoods and Community II    
5 Neighborhood Diversity and the Metropolitan Community    
6 Community Development I: Origins and Transformations    
7 Community Development II: The Current Scene    
8 Community Organizing in the Neighborhood I    
9

Community Organizing in the Neighborhood II: The Ricanne Hadrian Initiative in Community Organizing

Guest Speaker: David Greenberg, PhD Candidate DUSP

   
Part II: Housing and Community Development
10 Historic Perspective I First memo due  
11 Historic Perspective II    
12 Public Housing and Community Development    
13

Case Study: HOPE 6 in Boston

Guest Speaker: Deborah Goddard, Director of Development, Urban Edge and former Director of Development, Boston Housing Authority

   
14 Affordable Rental Housing: Preserving the Stock    
15

Managing the Housing Stock

Case Study: Managing Subsidized Housing

Guest Speaker: Judy Weber, Private Consultant, Former Director of Management The Community Builders

   
Part III: Economic Development, Work and Jobs
16 Community Economic Development: The Issues, the Record and the Debates - Part I    
17 Community Economic Development - Part II Second memo due  
18 Sources of Capital    
19

Small Business Development

Guest Speaker: Joe Kresberg, President, Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations

   
20

Main Streets

Guest Speaker: Karl Seidman

   
21 Welfare, Work and Job Training I    
22

Welfare, Work and Job Training II

Guest Speaker: Sarah Griffin, Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation and Independent Consultant

   
Part IV: Beyond Housing and Economic Development
23 Crime Security and Community Development    
24 Education and Community Development Third memo due  
25 Faith-based Organizations and Community Development    
26 Summing Up, Course Reflections etc.    

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Fall 2003
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