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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,206 ratings — published 2009
Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It)
by (shelved 10 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,868 ratings — published 2011
Walking With the Poor: Principles and Practices of Transformational Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.26 — 726 ratings — published 1999
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,807 ratings — published 1968
Community development: A critical approach (BASW/Policy Press titles)
by (shelved 7 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.24 — 59 ratings — published 2005
Community: The Structure of Belonging (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,772 ratings — published
The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.84 — 453 ratings — published 2010
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,273 ratings — published 2017
With Justice for All: A Strategy for Community Development (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 258 ratings — published 1981
Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing It Together and Doing It Right (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 196 ratings — published 1995
Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.22 — 278 ratings — published 1993
Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.18 — 229 ratings — published 2013
Dream with Me: Race, Love, and the Struggle We Must Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.32 — 640 ratings — published
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,085 ratings — published
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,294 ratings — published 2017
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,088 ratings — published 2012
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,904 ratings — published 2016
Asset Building and Community Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.56 — 68 ratings — published 2001
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,640 ratings — published 2000
Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 154 ratings — published 1993
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,761 ratings — published 1961
Rural Development: Putting the Last First (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.14 — 167 ratings — published 1983
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,573 ratings — published 2020
Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 560 ratings — published 1998
Let Justice Roll Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,863 ratings — published 1976
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,676 ratings — published 2017
Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.03 — 749 ratings — published 2006
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.83 — 513,791 ratings — published 2016
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,691 ratings — published 2000
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,906 ratings — published 2008
Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,536 ratings — published 2006
Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,165 ratings — published 2010
Empowerment: A Key Component of Christian Community Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 14 ratings — published 2010
The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.86 — 118 ratings — published 2007
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,286 ratings — published 2005
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,137 ratings — published 2004
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,317 ratings — published 1991
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,466 ratings — published 2001
Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.08 — 371 ratings — published 2007
The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.13 — 14,124 ratings — published 2009
Real Hope in Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.24 — 115 ratings — published 1995
The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.05 — 100 ratings — published
Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.96 — 453 ratings — published
This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,195 ratings — published 2016
Belonging: A Culture of Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,728 ratings — published 2004
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.70 — 20,233 ratings — published 2021
Charity Detox: What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.89 — 371 ratings — published 2015
101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.23 — 317 ratings — published
For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.73 — 237 ratings — published 2011
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,483 ratings — published 2020
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