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Abstract
One of the basic challenges confronting the community development profession is to find ways to bring our urban areas back into a more human scale. One method is to establish within them networks of cohesive, organized neighborhoods so that every resident can sense that he is part of an ongoing community where he can participate and have a voice.
This essay is my attempt to profile the neighborhood movement in Atlanta and to place that movement in some historical and philosophical perspective.
Community development, in the sense of facilitating those cultural mechanisms that provide for shared experience, trust, and common purpose, has a singularly crucial role to play in modern urban life.
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Joseph E. Parko
Joseph E. Parko, Jr., is Director of the Department of Urban Community Service at Georgia State University and Program Coordinator for the Urban Life Associates, the citizens advisory board to the university’s Urban Life Center.
