Celebrating the ten 2000 All-America City Award winners and the
community building efforts of twenty finalists, this issue delivers
a snapshot report on the experiences of communities that are
redefining the role of citizens and exploring new ways of fostering
civic engagement today. Contributors analyze a diverse range of
successful civic programs including New Hampshire's Civic Profile
initiative, a tool developed to give communities the opportunities
and technical support to assess what they do well and where they
can take action to improve the quality of life, and the St. Louis
County Department of Health's successful implementation of a more
holistic approach to core public health functions. The influence of
evolving societal conditions and their impact on our cities in the
future is also examined, as well as the trends requiring
communities to change in order to meet the public's expectation for
effective and equitable governance.
Articles include:
The Civic Profile: A Case Study of Community Building in New
Hampshire
David A. Bloom
Youth-Led Civic Organizing: Countering Perceptions of Apathy and
Redefining Civic Engagement (a Conversation with Joel Spoonheim of
the Active Citizens School)
Elizabeth Van Benschoten
Engaging the Community in Core Public Health Functions
Derek Okubo, Karen Weidman
Local Office Holders and the Publis
Joseph E. Freeman
The 2000 All-America City Awards
Michael McGrath, Pamela Montgomery
Cities in the Twenty-First Century: The Forces of Change
Roger L. Kemp
Economics of Scale: Business, Neighborhood Development, and
Local Government
John O'Looney
- ISBN10 0787954608
- ISBN13 9780787954604
- Publish Date 26 February 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 January 2012
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Imprint Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 106
- Language English