Building Community

This is a genuine innovation because it is the ONLY text available which demonstrates how social science theory/research can be APPLIED to successful collaborative work with community groups. Sustainable Communities on an Aging Planet is a course I am designing for Fall 1996. This text is exactly what I need for the course. I was very impressed with the case material. --Stan Ingman University of North Texas I will be teaching a new course next semester entitled ′Community Building.′ I would love to have a text that emphasizes case studies while providing some information on needs assessment and evaluation research. It looks like [this book] would be exactly what I need. --Roland Liebert University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana Twenty-seven instructive cases originally written for this volume are framed by two introductory chapters and a concluding chapter which draw out the principles and perspectives underlying the case materials. Each case also concludes with extensive editorial commentary.