Electronic WWW Resources

British Urban Regeneration Association
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/bura/  
BURA is an organisation concerned with the renewal of towns and cities. It brings together a cross-section of members from the public, private and voluntary sectors and provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, experience and information on urban regeneration.

Business Growth Partners - Community Development Programs
http://www.bizgrow.com/bgp/cd/cd.html#menu

British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA)
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/bura/
BURA is an independent organisation concerned with the renewal of towns and cities. It brings together a broad cross-section of members from the public, private and community sectors and provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, experience and information on urban regeneration.

Centre for Neighbourhood Technology
http://www.cnt.org/ 
The Centre for Neighbourhood Technology promotes public policies, new resources and accountable authority which supports sustainable, just and vital urban communities.

Centre for Regional Economic Issues - Case Western Reserve University
http://weatherhead.cwru.edu/dept/rei/index.html  
REI seeks to improve the economic welfare of the nation's regions through a program of policy research, education, and decision support.

Centre for Urban Poverty and Social Change - Case Western Reserve University
gopher://poverty.sass.cwru.edu/11/centers/c.pov  
The Centre for Urban Poverty and Social Change is dedicated to shaping an understanding of how changes in social and economic structure have affected low-income communities.

Civic Practices Network
http://www.cpn.org/
Civic Practices Network (CPN) is a collaborative and non-partisan project bringing together a diverse array of organisations and perspectives within the new citizenship movement, with a goal of bringing practical methods for public problem solving into community and institutional settings.

The Civic Trust for Wales
http://www.civictrustwales.demon.co.uk  
Environmental charity with an urban focus, devoted to town planning, urban development and conservation issues relating to Wales, UK

Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities
http://www.healthycommunities.org

A partnership of entities from the public, private and non-profit services collaborating to focus attention and resources on improving the health and quality of life of communities through community-based development.

COMM-ORG - Community Organising
http://uac.rdp.utoledo.edu/comm-org/  
COMM-ORG is an online conference on community organising and development.

Community Development Caritas - Edmonton, Alberta
http://www.caritas.ab.ca/~ccd/index.html  
Community Development Caritas supports neighbourhoods and various groups by working with them, and facilitating the development of community centred initiatives which support community driven and centred action.

Community Development Society
http://www.scn.org/IP/cds/
http://comm-dev.org/  (has list serve)

Community Information Exchange
http://neighborlink.cc.duq.edu/cie/index.htm
The Community Information Exchange is a national, non-profit information service that provides community-based organisations and their partners with the information they need to successfully revitalise their communities. The Exchange provides comprehensive information about strategies and resources for affordable housing, economic, and community development.

Community Preventive Services
http://web.health.gov/communityguide/

Community Renewal Index - Alliance for National Renewal
http://www.csn.net/anr/comindex.htm  
The Community Renewal Index includes a growing number of stories on the topics of most concern to communities including education, environment, public safety, youth, and many others.

Community Tool Box
http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/homepage.html-ssi  
The Community Tool Box was created to provide information and assistance to people interested in taking action to improve their communities.

Community Health Research Unit: Canada
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/med/epid/chru.html  

Eagles.Net
http://eagles.net 
eagles.net is a network/resource for non-profit professionals. eagles.net has over 140 topics covering a range of issues for nonprofits. Each topic may include forums, chat, field stories, action ideas and best practice models.

Foundation for Community Encouragement
http://www.ccsi.com/~jack/FCE.html  
FCE is a non-profit organisation founded in 1984 by M. Scott Peck and others to teach community building methods of Scott Peck's books Different Drum and World Waiting to be Born.

H-Urban Seminar on the History of Community Organising and Community-Based Development
http://h-net.msu.edu/~urban/comm-org/  
The primary purpose of the seminar is to present and discuss scholarly papers submitted in response to the Call for Papers issued in the summer of 1995. In addition, COMM-ORG accepts additional postings on the topic of the history and present practice of community organising and community based development.

Healthy Cities and Communities
http://www.healthycities.org 
This is a site that looks at cities and communities holistically.

Institute on Race and Poverty
http://www.umn.edu/irp/ 
The Institute on Race and Poverty is a strategic research centre based at the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis. The Institute's goals are to create scholarship, commentary, and dialogue to promote a better understanding of the issues confronting communities which face the combined challenges of racial segregation and poverty.

Intentional Communities (co-housing, coops,...)
http://www.well.com/user/cmty/ 

International Downtown Association
http://ida-downtown.org/ 

Kellogg Collection of Rural Community Development Resources
http://www.unl.edu/kellogg/index.html  
The Collection contains high quality rural community development materials funded by the Kellogg Foundation and other selected sponsors of recognised rural programs. Guidebooks, manuals, workshop materials, reports, books, and videos are included.

LETSystem Design Manual
http://www.u-net.com/gmlets/design/home.html

Local Government Commission
http://www.lgc.org/ 
The LGC provides a forum and technical assistance to enhance the ability of local governments to create and sustain healthy environments, healthy economies, and social equity.

Local Horizon
http://www.macbroker.com/:cserve/langevin/horizong.htm
This site offers organisation and communication technical information as well as a selection of references and links to other sources of information on local development and micro-projects.

National Centre for the Revitalisation of Central Cities
http://www.uno.edu/~cupa/ncrcc/ 
The National Centre for the Revitalisation of Central Cities is a consortium of universities that conduct research and analysis leading to programs, strategies and theories to assist the legislative and executive branches of government in formulating a national policy to revitalise our central cities. The National Centre was established by Congress in 1990 at the University of New Orleans' College of Urban and Public Affairs.

The Neighbourhood Works
http://www.cnt.org/tnw/tnwhome.htm  
The intent of The Neighbourhood Works is to share resources urban residents are using to move their neighbourhoods toward self-reliance and to stimulate economic growth.

Neighbourhoods Online
http://libertynet.org/community/phila/natl.html
This is part of a joint project of the Institute for the Study of Civic Values and LibertyNet in Philadelphia, aimed at helping neighbourhood activists and organisations gain information and resources of use in solving community problems.

Neighbourhoods Online - Libertynet
http://www.libertynet.org:80/community/phila/natl.html/  
This project is aimed at helping neighbourhood activists and organisations gain information and resources of use in solving community problems.

Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse
http://www.opc.on.ca
Health promotion , community resources - link to Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition site

Participatory Design in an Urban Context
http://www.gotzespace.dk/phd/
The general theme is democratic urban innovation and participatory design processes and aims at addressing the possibilities for increasing public participation and citizenship in the urban development process.

Policy Research Action Group
http://www.luc.edu/depts/sociology/prag/  
PRAG consists of Chicago-based academics and community activists which has been building a collaborative research network to better link research and grassroots activism.

Pratt Institute Centre for Community and Environmental Development
http://www.pratt.edu/picced/
The mission of the Pratt Centre is to use the professional skills of architects and planners to work for social and economic justice by providing low- and moderate-income communities with access to the tools and resources needed to meet the challenges they face in planning and implementing their future.

Project for Public Spaces
http://www.pps.org/
Project for Public Spaces, Inc. (PPS) is a non-profit corporation specialising in the planning, design, and management of public spaces. PPS's objective is to improve public spaces so they are more active, attractive, comfortable and enjoyable. PPS considers public spaces to include all of the areas, interior or exterior, publicly or privately owned, to which the public has access and which form the common life of a community.

Public Voice for Food and Health Policy - Inner City Food Access
http://www.publicvoice.org/partners/pvoice/citytoc.html  
Contains papers on the lack of supermarkets in US inner city neighbourhoods.

Redefining Progress
http://www.rprogress.org

Rural Chronicles
http://home.navisoft.com/ruralchronicles/index.htm  
Rural Chronicles, a rural affairs publishing company, is dedicated to the revitalisation of rural communities, advancing the body of knowledge of small towns, and documenting the essence of rural life.

Rural Economic and Community Development - USDA
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/
The purpose of this WWW site is to provide access to the informational resources of the RECD agencies.

Sustainable Communities
http://cfn.cs.dal.ca/environment/SCN?SCN-home.html

United States - Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Program
http://www.ezec.gov/ 
The Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community program is designed to afford communities real opportunities for growth and revitalisation. The framework of the program is embodied in four key principles: Economic Opportunity; Sustainable Community Development; Community-based Partnerships; Strategic Vision for Change.

United States Department of Housing and Urban Development - Community Planning and Development
http://www.hud.gov/cpd.html

Urban Alliance on Race Relations -
http://www.uarr.org/
The UARR was formed by a group of concerned Toronto citizens. Its primary goal is to promote a stable and healthy multiracial/multicultural environment in the community.

World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Research on Healthy Cities
http://www.rulimburg.nl/~who-city/www.html
bibliography - European links - access to newsletter

World Summary of Community Development WWW sites.
http://www.arch.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/pairc/comm_dev