Hyderabad Urban Community Development Project

2019 ◽  
pp. 181-205
Author(s):  
William J. Cousins ◽  
Catherine Goyder
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Development Project

Communities of Place, Not Kind: American Technologies of Neighborhood in Postcolonial Delhi

2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 757-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew S. Hull
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Community Pattern ◽  
Communities Of Place ◽  
New Community

In 1956 the Indian Government invited the Ford Foundation to assist with a master plan for the Delhi region. Two years later, the invitation was extended to help with a separate urban community development program. Even though the master plan was a comprehensive project covering transportation, water, sewage, housing, industry, and zoning, the creation of community and communities was one of its main goals. The Draft Master Plan for Delhi (DMPD) declared “in all planning for man's environments,” it was “extremely vital” to “evolve a well integrated new community pattern that would fit the changed living conditions of the new age and promote genuine democratic growth.” Similarly, the primary objective of the urban community development project, as laid out by the Commissioner of Delhi, was that of “giving form to an urban community, which has been drawn from backgrounds varying from one another and trying to achieve a homogeneity.”

Implementing PAR in a Thai community development context

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-215
Author(s):  
Nuntiya Doungphummes ◽  
Mark Vicars
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Development Context ◽  
Participatory Inquiry

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present an account of a PAR project in a Thai community and to discuss the methodological implications of implementing a culturally responsive approach.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on the frameworks for PAR conducted as a community development project with rural Thai communities.FindingsThe paper reviews the use of a PAR approach as a culturally responsive approach and presents an experience of culturally situated research practice.Originality/valueThis paper encourages researchers conducting participatory inquiry to engage in deeper critical reflection on the implications of these methods in keeping with PAR's critical ontological, epistemological and axiological orientation.

Action-research in community development

1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Lees
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Experiment ◽  
The Government

At the end of 1971 the Government designated the extention of the Community Development Project to the planned total of twelve areas. The project was then described as ‘a national action-research experiment’ carried out in selected urban localities in order to discover ‘how far the social problems experienced by people in a local community can be better understood and resolved through closer co-ordination of all agencies in the social welfare field – central and local government and the voluntary organizations – together with the local people themselves’. There was a special emphasis placed on the importance of ‘citizen involvement and community self-help’, together with the expectation that ‘the lessons learned can be fed back into social policy, planning and administration, both at central and local government level’.

The Songs and Stories of Scotts Run

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 354-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Christopher Haddox
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
West Virginia ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Public Performance

This work represents the authors’ contributions to a multidisciplinary community development project about Scotts Run—a community that sprang up along a creek of the same name in western Monongalia County, West Virginia. Lyrics and recitation resulted from intense engagement with a core of remaining residents who related their stories about life up and down the creek. The songs and recitation were combined with several other songs, readings, narrations, videos, images, and artifacts in a public performance that engaged the residents of Osage and Scotts Run in a telling of their own story.

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