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An Introduction to Community Development

Name: An Introduction to Community Development
Author: Rhonda Phillips
ISBN: 9780203886939

by Rhonda Phillips, Robert H. Pittman

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Overview

Beginning with the foundations of community development, this book offers a comprehensive and practical approach to planning for communities. Road-tested in the authors' own teaching, and also through the training they provide for practising planners, it enables students to begin making connections between academic study and practical know-how from both private and public sector contexts.

About the Author, Rhonda Phillips

Rhonda Phillips is Professor and Director of the School of Community Resources and Development, Arizona State University. Her research and practice speciality has focused on community well-being including work with community indicator systems and economic development planning. She is the Editor of Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society.

Robert Pittman is the Executive Director of the Community Development Institute and the Strategic Growth Institute at the University of Central Arkansas, where he also serves as Professor in the College of Business. He has provided consulting services to community and economic development organizations and major corporations in the U.S. and around the world.