“Mutual Transformation of Rich and Poor”
Frank M. Alton
Urban Advance, Volume 3, Number 3 1991.

“Reflections on the New Urbanism: Designing the City”
Norman B. Bendroth
Christian Century, June 20-27, 2001 pp 14-16,18-19.

"A Community Designing Community”
Norman B. Bendroth
Christian Century, June 20-27, 2001 p. 17.

“Cityscape: The Relationship of People to Place”
James W. Lewis
Christian Century, June 20-27, 2001 pp.20-23.

“Showing Results in Community Organization”
Haya Itzhaky and Alan S. York
Social Work, Volume 47, Number 2, April 2002.

“Model Cities: What New York can learn from the economic recoveries in Houston and L.A.”
Joel Kotkin
City Limits, November 2003, pp. 40-41.

“What is a Neighborhood Organization?”
Adapted from Neighborhoods Resource Center, Nashville, Tennessee www.tnrc.net

“CDC?”
from Randy Stoecker

“Community Development Corporations - The Ideal”
from Randy Stoecker

“Community Development Corporations - The Reality”
from Randy Stoecker

“Community Development and Community Organizing: Apples and Oranges? Chicken and Egg?”
from Randy Stoecker

Empowering the Poor : Community Organizing Among the City’s ‘Rag, Tag and Bobtail
Robert C. Linthicum (Monrovia: MARC. 1991. 118 pp.)

Rebuilding Our Communities: How Churches Can Provide, Support, and Finance Quality Housing for Low-Income Families Alice Shabecoff
(Monrovia, CA: World Vision 1992 280 pp.)
NOTE: This book appears to be out of print. World Vision might allow it to be provided in a digital e-book version.

Pratt Institute Center for Community & Environmental Development

The Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development (PICCED) has been in service to the community for over thirty years. It was established in 1963 to create a partnership between Pratt Institute's Department of City and Regional Planning and local organizations that were struggling to address issues of urban deterioration and poverty. PICCED grew out of the Institute's belief that an integral part of its mission as an urban university was to provide community-based organizations in low-income neighborhoods throughout New York City with access to the technical resources of its faculty, staff, and students.

As the oldest university-based advocacy planning organization in the country, PICCED's mission is to enhance the capacity of low- and moderate-income communities to develop innovative solutions to the physical, social, and economic challenges facing them. PICCED carries out this mission through three interrelated program areas:

• Technical Assistance (including planning and architectural services
• Training and Education
• Public Policy and Analysis

Since 1975, when the Pratt Planning and Architectural Collaborative (PPAC)
was formed as a separate but related entity of PICCED, the Center has been providing comprehensive architectural services to community groups that otherwise would not have access to the professional services needed to develop low-income and special needs housing, day care centers, primary health care facilities, arts and cultural centers, and alternative public schools.
-- From PICCED’s web site home page picced.org