The Two “Logics†of Community Development: Neighborhoods, Markets, and Community Development Corporations

L. Owen Kirkpatrick
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L. Owen Kirkpatrick: University of California, Davis, lkirkpatrick@ucdavis.edu

Politics & Society, 2007, vol. 35, issue 2, 329-359

Abstract: Two Community Development Corporations (CDCs) in Oakland, California, anchor the following analysis. These legally homogenous organizations have implemented similar “low-income†redevelopment projects widely hailed as representing a single successful blueprint for urban revitalization. Despite their similarities, however, these entities have produced starkly different socio-economic outcomes—a phenomenon traced to the CDCs' divergent internal structures and the contrasting external contexts of their development activities. These variations generated competing “logics†of redevelopment. On one hand, we find a CDC dominated by market-oriented interests and the economic logic of exchange-values, while on the other, we find a CDC dominated by community-oriented interests and the social logic of neighborhood use-values.

Keywords: community-based organizations; gentrification; globalization; urban regimes; urban redevelopment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1177/0032329207300395

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