Mitigating blight and building community pride in a legacy city: Lessons learned from a land bank's clean and green programme

Community Development Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 591-610

  Sadler, Richard C ^a   Pruett, Natalie K ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Community Progress   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; SUSTAINABILITY; YOUNG POPULATION;

FLINT; MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85016074758     PISSN: 00103802     EISSN: 14682656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cdj/bsv052     Document Type: Article

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