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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 24, 2009
Community Development Journal 2009 44(4):528-530; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsp046
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DIY Community Action: Neighbourhood Problems and Community Self-help

Mags Crean

PRAXIS, Dublin, Ireland

email: margaret.ccrean@ucd.ie

Liz Richardson, The Policy Press, Bristol, UK, 2008, 298 pp, ISBN 978 1 84742 084 8, paperback, £23.99 stg.

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Investing in under-resourced estates and analysing the outcomes is the fundamental aim of the Gatsby Research Project, which this book presents in terms of a discussion on community action. But it seems somewhat expected that investing 1.25 million over 5 years, from 1996 to 2001, into 56 estates would inevitably generate positive results, unless of course the vision of such areas is informed by a cultural deficit understanding. Owing to personal experience, this reviewer is all too well aware of the intelligent and resilient people that inhabit such areas and is not surprised, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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