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Community Development Journal Advance Access published online on February 25, 2005
Community Development Journal, doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi042
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Sticks, bricks, and social capital: the challenge of community development corporations in the American Deep South

H. Gibbs Knotts 1*

1 Department of Political Science and Public Affairs, Western Carolina University, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
H. Gibbs Knotts, E-mail: gknotts{at}email.wcu.edu


  Abstract

Community development corporations (CDCs) have emerged as major players in community development. Scholars have conducted case studies of CDCs and compared CDCs with each other, but they have not evaluated outcome measures in similar CDC and non-CDC neighbourhoods. I compare two measures of neighbourhood revitalization, construction (sticks and bricks) and social capital, in CDC and non-CDC Atlanta, Georgia, neighbourhoods. The findings indicate that the presence of a CDC has a positive and significant effect on construction, but activists in CDC neighbourhoods do not perceive higher levels of social capital than do activists in comparable non-CDC neighbourhoods. Based on examples from Atlanta, I highlight ways to overcome the tensions between physical development and community building and discuss my findings for future CDC development.


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