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In Ghosts of Organizations Past, Dan Ryan asks, "Why are urban communities such hard places to implement community improvement programs?" Looking at New Haven, Connecticut, and a now-defunct program called Fighting Back, which was created to build community coalitions against the abuse of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ryan, Dan (Daniel John), 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Community organization > Connecticut > New Haven > Case studies.
Substance abuse > Connecticut > New Haven > Prevention > Case studies.
Community development > Connecticut > New Haven > Case studies.
Sociology, Urban > Connecticut > New Haven > Case studies.
Organisation communautaire > Connecticut > New Haven > Études de cas.
Sociologie urbaine > Connecticut > New Haven > Études de cas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Community development.
Community organization.
Sociology, Urban.
Substance abuse > Prevention.
Connecticut > New Haven.
Case studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. From Opportunity to Disaster (and Back Again); 1. The Ghosts of Organizations Past; Part II. Disaster and Opportunity; 2. From Disaster to Opportunity; 3. From Opportunity to Disaster; Part III. Communities and Organizations; 4. What Kind of Thing Is Community?; 5. What Kind of Thing Is an Organization?; 6. Doing Things with Organizations in Communities; Part IV. Organizing Organizations; 7. Doing Things with Organizations: The Cost of Organizational Diversity; 8. Doing Things with Organizations: The Cost of System.
  • 9. Networks of Garbage Cans: The Amplification of Irrationality10. Networks and Calendar Noise; Part V. Social Organizational Junkyards; 11. Community as Organizational Junkyard; 12. Why Can't Organizations Be Like Us?; Bibliography; Index.

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