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Community organization --- Community power --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Local government --- Power (Social sciences) --- Sociology, Urban --- CBOs (Community organization) --- Community-based organizations --- Community councils --- Community life

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What do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you're tired of the rowdy teenagers next door keeping you up all night? Is there a vacant lot on your block accumulating weeds, needles, and litter? For a century, Chicagoans have joined block clubs to address problems like these that make daily life in the city a nuisance. When neighbors work together in block clubs, playgrounds get built, local crime is monitored, streets are cleaned up, and every summer is marked by the festivities of day-long block parties. In Chicago's Block Clubs, Amanda I. Seligman uncovers the history of the block club in Chicago-from its origins in the Urban League in the early 1900s through to the Chicago Police Department's twenty-first-century community policing program. Recognizing that many neighborhood problems are too big for one resident to handle-but too small for the city to keep up with-city residents have for more than a century created clubs to establish and maintain their neighborhood's particular social dynamics, quality of life, and appearance. Omnipresent yet evanescent, block clubs are sometimes the major outlets for community organizing in the city-especially in neighborhoods otherwise lacking in political strength and clout. Drawing on the stories of hundreds of these groups from across the city, Seligman vividly illustrates what neighbors can-and cannot-accomplish when they work together.

Citizens' associations --- Neighbors --- Community development, Urban --- Societies, etc. --- Chicago. --- block clubs. --- cities. --- citizen participation. --- civic organizations. --- community based organizations. --- community organization. --- neighbor. --- organizations. --- quality of life. --- volunteer.

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Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives showcases important efforts to improve the quality of life in communities around the world. The book, a project of the clinical sociology division of the International Sociological Association, describes the interdisciplinary field of clinical sociology in relation to community improvement. The first part of the book covers important concepts and tools for community intervention and identifies a variety of approaches to community research with an emphasis on research that centrally involves community members. The chapters in the second part of the volume focus on projects in a broad range of countries, covering topics such as involving residents in urban renewal projects, developing healthy communities, encouraging socioeconomic development, improving the life of immigrants, helping communities deal with climate change, establishing human rights cities, encouraging empowerment and creating an inclusive community. A unique feature of the book is the inclusion of profiles about some of the outstanding work in community intervention over the last 100 years. These profiles are of Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams; community activist Saul Alinsky; human rights and environmental activist Wangari Maathai; and participatory action research pioneer Orlando Fals Borda. Written by scholar-practitioners as well as analysts, the book provides essential commentary regarding community intervention efforts. .

Community development. --- Community organization. --- CBOs (Community organization) --- Community-based organizations --- Community councils --- Community life --- Community development --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- Demography. --- Sociology, general. --- Historical demography --- Social sciences --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Sociology. --- Social theory

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#SBIB:316.8H51 --- #SBIB:316.8H23 --- Sociaal beleid: inspraak en participatie --- Welzijnsorganisatie: samenlevingsopbouw, opbouwwerk --- Community organization --- Community organization. --- Voluntarism --- Research --- CBOs (Community organization) --- Community-based organizations --- Community councils --- Community life

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Community organization --- -Social structure --- -Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- CBOs (Community organization) --- Community-based organizations --- Community councils --- Community life --- Chicago (Ill.) --- -Social conditions --- -Chicago (Ill.) --- Social structure --- Organization, Social --- Social conditions.