Walk and Chalk in Hong Kong Click for more details and images. (This photo essay on CNN i-Report.) A group of post-80′s youth (born after 1980) is demonstrating their displeasure of the current impasse of the political situation in Hong Kong by doing “walk and chalk” protests in various neighbourhoods throughout the territory. Democratic development [...]

Excerpts from Voices From the Field II: Reflections on Comprehensive Community Change, by Anne C. Kubisch, Patricia Auspos, Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Karen Fulbright-Anderson, and Ralph Hamilton. Washington, D.C.: Aspen Institute. Community building—the process of strengthening the ability of neighborhood residents, organizations, and institutions to foster and sustain neighborhood change, both individually and collectively—is vital [...]

Whether the nuisance is physical (such as blighted property) or behavioral (such as a drug house), the best solutions focus on the core elements that have allowed its continuing existence. This document identifies barriers to solving chronic nuisance problems, discusses ways that experienced leaders find solutions, and provides a set of references for pursuing specific [...]

William J. Traynor, Jessica Andors . Shelterforce 2005. Across the country there is a fundamental condition that consistently undercuts even the most successful community development efforts: chronic disengagement. In most cities, public or civic life is a hostile environment for the average person, ruled by cynicism and division, and dominated by entrenched habits of isolation [...]