John L. McKnight

For a short and powerful depiction of how our neighborhoods ended up in the current situation, I recommend John L. McKnight's The Careless Society, Community and it's Counterfeits--Amazon

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Asset-based community development is a good basis for beginning to understand the latent and explicit capacity of a neighborhood. My concern with the approach is that it often focuses on communities larger than neighborhoods. It seems to lack sufficiently powerful concepts, methods, and tools to successfully reimagine and relocalize creativity at the neighborhood level.

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