Session 4: March 7
Time and Location: 9am-noon @ Somerville Community Corp at 337 Somerville Ave, Somerville
Community Planning and Development 2
Agenda
- Welcome and Opening (15 min)
- Guest Panel: (50 min)
Meredith Levy, Somerville Community Corporation, focus on Green Line Extension
Lydia Lowe, Chinese Progressive Association, focus on Chinatown Gateway
Roseann Bongiovanni, Chelsea Collaborative, focus on Chelsea Creek
- Questions and Discussion (25 min)
- Break (10 min)
- Workshop Project exercise (70 min)
- Wrap-up: Evaluation and Next Session (10 min)
Assignments
- Write a 1-2 page journal reflecting on the themes and discussion in the previous session
- Post comments on project list
- Complete the required readings
Readings and Resources
DeFilippis, Fisher, Shragge. 2010. “Contesting Community Development: Promoters and Critics,” in Urban Spaces: Planning and Struggles for Land and Community edited by James Jennings and Julia Jordan-Zachery. Lexington Books. Pages 117-133.
Lowe, Lydia and Doug Brugge. 2007. “Grassroots Organizing in Boston Chinatown: A Comparison with CDC-style Organizing,” in Acting Civically edited by Susan Ostrander and Kent Portney. University Press of New England. Pages 44-71. Accessible at : http://books.google.com/books?id=vmMhgpQhawsC&lpg=PA44&dq=lowe%20and%20brugge&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q=lowe%20and%20brugge&f=false
Traynor, William and Jessica Andors. March/April 2005. “Network Organizing: A Strategy for Building Community Engagement.” Shelterforce Issue #140. Available at: http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/140/LCW.html
Dolan, Caitlin, Marcus Rozbitsky, and Samantha Sandoval. Dec 10, 2010. “Green Zones: Case Studies from the U.S. and Europe,” Prepared for Community Labor United through Fall 2010 Environmental Justice Class (UEP 278). (on wiki)
Other:
Journal of Community Power Building: Reflections of Community Development Leaders and Practitioners. May 2004. Editors: Sam Yoon, Asian CDC; Bill Traynor, Lawrence CommunityWorks; Nancy Marks, MACDC. Ricanne Hadrian Initiative for Community Organizing. Accessible at: http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers2004/rhico/contents.htm
[See articles by Danny LeBlanc, Somerville Community Corporation and Kalila Barnett and Harry Smith, Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation.]