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Healthy neighborhoods :From involvement to activism through neighborhood-based planning.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Healthy neighborhoods :
Reminder of title:	From involvement to activism through neighborhood-based planning.
Author:	Mandrekar, Veena Vidyadhar.
Description:	198 p.
Notes:	Chair: Sharon E. Sutton.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-02, Section: A, page: 0634.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-02A.
Subject:	Urban and Regional Planning.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9825295
ISBN:	0591772957

Healthy neighborhoods :From involvement to activism through neighborhood-based planning.
Mandrekar, Veena Vidyadhar.

Healthy neighborhoods :From involvement to activism through neighborhood-based planning.[electronic resource] - 198 p.

Chair: Sharon E. Sutton.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 1998.

Notable outcomes include: participation by more residents over a longer time period than anticipated, facilitation of activist leadership among the resident planners, greater critical awareness of neighborhood health issues, name recognition and improved responsiveness from service-delivery agencies, identification of the area for inter-agency collaboration, a blueprint for future action, and the use of the methodology in other settings in the city. Disappointments include: resident planners greater interest in safety/security in relation to health, lack of effect on institutional funding policies, lack of involvement of the broader community, the ineffectiveness of health as a generative theme for recruiting participants, and the recognition that grass-roots groups may not, on their own, be able to accomplish structural changes. Nonetheless, the dramatic results of workshop participation leading to neighborhood activism lends support to the constellation of practice design principles adopted for the study. Flexibility, while adhering to these principles, was found to be a key factor in the success of this community organizing effort.

ISBN: 0591772957Subjects--Topical Terms:

212416
Urban and Regional Planning.

Healthy neighborhoods :From involvement to activism through neighborhood-based planning.
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