GGRB05H3 Study Guide - Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, Community Development Bank, Local Economic Development
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It means the provision of professional planning expertise and services to minority groups lacking the financial ability to purchase such services. It recognizes that the public interest is a matter of politics. An attempt to move citizens participation forward from merely reacting to agency plans to propose their own concepts of appropriate goals and future action. Various forms, but 3 examples are the architect s renewal committee of harlem (arch), urban planning aids of. Boston (ufa) and the community design centre (cdc) of san francisco. Arch, formed in 1964 by group of white professionals who felt that their expertise could be of service to the harlem community. The limited power of the advocacy strategy has been criticized by one of the founders of arch because of little fundamental changes. Some of its r supporters have suggested that it should be under- taken by planners operating within the established city planning system without the necessity of a client group.
