Neighborhood resources from Bill Berkowitz

UMass Professor Emeritus Bill Berkowitz sent us these recommended resources:

• The Community Tool Box, a service of the Work Group for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas – the world’s largest resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. It offers more than 7,000 pages of practical guidance in creating change and improvement, and is growing as a global resource for this work.
• Neighborhood Resources at the Society for Community Research and Action – “circa 2006, though at this point that could probably use some updating”.

Dr. Berkowitz adds: “As for books, two useful ones I’ve come across fairly recently are The Great Neighborhood Book, by Jay Walljasper, which focuses on creating public spaces, and Superbia!: 31 ways to create sustainable neighborhoods, by Dan Chiras and Dave Wann, which deals with ideas for improving and sustaining neighborhood life in the suburbs (the suburbs tend to get underplayed in the neighborhood literature, though that’s where roughly half the American population lives). Both are published by New Society Publishers.”

Thank you Bill!