| ID | 077451 |
| Title Proper | Two "Logics" of community development |
| Other Title Information | neighborhoods, markets, and community development corporations |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Kirkpatrick, L Owen |
| Publication | 2007. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Two Community Development Corporations (CDCs) in Oakland, California, anchor the following analysis. These legally homogenous organizations have implemented similar "low-income" redevelopment projects widely hailed as representing a single successful blueprint for urban revitalization. Despite their similarities, however, these entities have produced starkly different socio-economic outcomes-a phenomenon traced to the CDCs' divergent internal structures and the contrasting external contexts of their development activities. These variations generated competing "logics" of redevelopment. On one hand, we find a CDC dominated by market-oriented interests and the economic logic of exchange-values, while on the other, we find a CDC dominated by community-oriented interests and the social logic of neighborhood use-values |
| `In' analytical Note | Politics and Society Vol. 35, No.2; Jun 2007: p329-359 |
| Journal Source | Politics and Society Vol. 35, No.2; Jun 2007: p329-359 |
| Key Words | Community-Based Organizations ; Gentrification ; Globalization ; Urban Regimes ; Urban Redevelopment |