Metropolitan Solutions By Bruce Katz, Guest Editor

Expanding Community Development
By Jeremy Nowak
CBOs should redefine the nature of their work and find new allies in their region.

Connecting People to Jobs
By Robert O. Zdenek
New Community Corporation in Newark connects residents to outside jobs and attracts new resources to the city.

Growing Together
By Manuel Pastor, Jr., and Peter Dreier, Eugene Grigsby III, and Marta Lopez-Garza
Should regions care about their inner cities? A study of the Los Angeles area and other cities shows good reasons why.

Regional coalition building
By Myron Orfield
Coalitions between inner cities and inner suburbs can produce a more equitable system of regional planning and development.

St. Louis Congregations fight urban sprawl
By David Rusk
St. Louis-area churches unite to contain sprawling suburbs that threaten farmland and leave the inner city deteriorating.

Special Supplement: Redefining Community Development, part II (Text Only Version) By Winton Pitcoff
Comprehensive Community Initiatives challenge neighborhoods to connect people, organizations, and issues in ways that bring about sustainable change.
Sidebars to Redefining Community Development:

• Preparing for Change
• Increasing Meeting Turnout
• Words, not Whacks
• The Rebuilding Communities Initiative
• Profile of a Community Builder: Kathy Brown
• Power and Race in CCIs