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Unprecedented, broad coverage of downtown and community development topics from a practitioner’s viewpoint! Making Business Districts Work: Leadership and Management of Downtown, Main Street, Business District, and Community Development Organizations is the essential desk reference for downtown and community business district professionals and board members. It’s also a complete survey of all the skills and information students will need as they emerge from s… More >>
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The parish, the lowest level of hierarchy in the medieval church, was the shared responsibility of the laity and the clergy. Most Christians were baptized, went to confession, were married, and were buried in the parish church or churchyard; in addition, business, legal settlements, sociability, and entertainment brought people to the church, uniting secular and sacred concerns. In The People of the Parish, Katherine L. French contends that late medieval religion wa… More >>
» Read more: The People of the Parish: Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese
Tags: christians, clergy, Community, confession, Diocese, English, hierarchy, katherine l french, laity, Late, legal settlements, Life, Medieval, medieval church, medieval religion, Parish, People, sociability
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For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking to satisfy the basic human needs of deprived population groups, to increase their political capabilities and to improve social interaction both internally and between the… More >>
» Read more: Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?: Community Development and Social Innovation
Tags: basic human needs, capabilities, City, Community, decades, Development, initiatives, Innovation, Neighbourhoods, population groups, regeneration, Save, Social, social innovation, social interaction