Community Organizing and Community-Based Redevelopment in Cedar-Riverside and East Toledo

A Comparative Study

Bibliographic Data

ID6077313
AuthorsR Stoecker (0000-0002-6716-8532, University of Toledo, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume2
Issue3
Pages1-23
Publication date1995-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Community Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1070-5422 • E-ISSN: 1543-3706
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j125v02n03_01
OpenAlexW1547324114
LanguageEN
Citations received8

This paper addresses the question of the extent to which community organizing and community-based redevelopment are complementary or contradictory. Two neighborhoods are compared which transformed from community organizing movements to community- based redevelopment movements. In Cedar-Riverside, a neighborhood with radical counter-culture roots, militant community organizing to stop a high-rise redevelopment plan gave way to community- based redevelopment efforts to build low-density co-op housing. In East Toledo, a neighborhood characterized by strong East European immigrant culture and traditionalism, militant community organizing to stop a four-lane road and reverse city service cuts led to community-based redevelopment activities around jobs and infrastructure improvement in an effort to bring industry back to the area. These two examples show how community organizing is necessary for successful community-based redevelopment, and also how conflicts created by community-based redevelopment undermine community organizing. The paper concludes with a discussion of how community organizing might be maintained through the development process

Civil engineering · Community building · Community development · Community organization · Community organizing · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Militant · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Redevelopment · Sociology · Engineering · Law · Public Administration · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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