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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 13,995 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 3.94 — 4,710 ratings — published 2011
Walking With the Poor: Principles and Practices of Transformational Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 713 ratings — published 1999
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,781 ratings — published 1968
Community: The Structure of Belonging (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,734 ratings — published
The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.83 — 447 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 4.44 — 45,411 ratings — published 2017
Community development: A critical approach (BASW/Policy Press titles)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.22 — 58 ratings — published 2005
With Justice for All: A Strategy for Community Development (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 252 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 — 193 ratings — published 1995
Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 272 ratings — published 1993
Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.18 — 217 ratings — published 2013
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,850 ratings — published
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,898 ratings — published 2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.47 — 112,720 ratings — published 2016
Asset Building and Community Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.58 — 67 ratings — published 2001
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,984 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 4.12 — 149 ratings — published 1993
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,703 ratings — published 1961
Rural Development: Putting the Last First (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.13 — 166 ratings — published 1983
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,589 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 — 542 ratings — published 1998
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,228 ratings — published 2017
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,584 ratings — published 2012
Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.03 — 742 ratings — published 2006
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.84 — 499,533 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 — 2,650 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 — 55,595 ratings — published 2008
Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,464 ratings — published 2006
Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,974 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 — 11,231 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 4.17 — 966 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 — 16,049 ratings — published 1991
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,374 ratings — published 2001
Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.07 — 369 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 — 14,073 ratings — published 2009
Real Hope in Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.23 — 112 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 4.14 — 84 ratings — published
Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 415 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 — 6,041 ratings — published 2016
Belonging: A Culture of Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,558 ratings — published 2004
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.70 — 19,050 ratings — published 2021
101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.23 — 304 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 3.74 — 234 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 4.35 — 2,434 ratings — published 2020
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.62 — 21,093 ratings — published 2021
Having Nothing, Possessing Everything: Finding Abundant Communities in Unexpected Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.39 — 241 ratings — published
Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,060 ratings — published 2018
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