TY - BOOK AU - Levine,Jeremy R. TI - Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston SN - 9780691205885 AV - HT384.U52 B675 2021 U1 - 307.1/4160974461 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Cities and towns KW - Massachusetts KW - Boston KW - Growth KW - Community development KW - Community organization KW - Nonprofit organizations KW - United States KW - Urban policy KW - Citizen participation KW - Urban renewal KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban KW - bisacsh KW - David Callahan KW - David Glick KW - Derek Hyra KW - Johnson Amendment KW - Josh Pacewicz KW - Katherine Einstein KW - Mary Patillo KW - Max Palmer KW - Nicole Marwell KW - Rob Reich KW - Robert Vargas KW - Sarah Reckhow KW - affordable housing KW - cities KW - community consensus KW - community control KW - community groups KW - community partnerships KW - community planning KW - democratic representation KW - ethnography KW - governance KW - housing policy KW - nonprofit diversity KW - operating support KW - philanthropy in politics KW - philanthropy KW - political voice KW - politics KW - poverty KW - private foundations KW - program support KW - racial inequality KW - social policy N1 - Frontmatter --; contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; PART I --; chapter 1 Slow Train Coming --; chapter 2 A Seat at the Table --; chapter 3 In Search of Spatial Legibility --; PART II --; chapter 4 Representing the Community --; chapter 5 Following the Money --; chapter 6 Community Power --; Conclusion --; Methodological Appendix --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban developmentWho makes decisions that shape the housing, policies, and social programs in urban neighborhoods? Who, in other words, governs? Constructing Community offers a rich ethnographic portrait of the individuals who implement community development projects in the Fairmount Corridor, one of Boston’s poorest areas. Jeremy Levine uncovers a network of nonprofits and philanthropic foundations making governance decisions alongside public officials—a public-private structure that has implications for democratic representation and neighborhood inequality.Levine spent four years following key players in Boston’s community development field. While state senators and city councilors are often the public face of new projects, and residents seem empowered through opportunities to participate in public meetings, Levine found a shadow government of nonprofit leaders and philanthropic funders, nonelected neighborhood representatives with their own particular objectives, working behind the scenes. Tying this system together were political performances of “community”—government and nonprofit leaders, all claiming to value the community. Levine provocatively argues that there is no such thing as a singular community voice, meaning any claim of community representation is, by definition, illusory. He shows how community development is as much about constructing the idea of community as it is about the construction of physical buildings in poor neighborhoods.Constructing Community demonstrates how the nonprofit sector has become integral to urban policymaking, and the tensions and trade-offs that emerge when private nonprofits take on the work of public service provision UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691205885?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691205885 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691205885/original ER -