1. Alternate Societies
   A brief survey on intentional community in European history
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1993
   A brief outline of the history of attempts in western society to create living arrangements which would complement, and in some cases further, efforts to become economically independent.
2. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 3
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1976
   
3. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
4. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
5. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 2
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
7. Catch your dreams - utopia is possible!
   While Marinaleda has its flaws, it reminds us that alternative economic models are not only possible, they already exist.
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   Amid Spain's general depression, Marinaleda - an Andalucian town sometimes dubbed the 'communist utopia' - is bucking the moribund trend with a heady mixture of direct action, community-level democracy, cooperation and mutual aid.
8. Citizens Participate - An Action Guide for Public Issues.
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1974
   
9. Communitas 
   Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1947   Published: 1960
   Visions of urban life.
10. Community Development Corporations: An Information Kit
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    
11. Community development curriculum
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    
12. Community Dreams 
    Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
13. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
14. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
15. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
16. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
17. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
18. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
    
19. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    
20. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
    
21. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
22. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
23. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
24. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
25. Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    
26. Exploring Your Neighbourhood
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    A guide for children to learn more about their neighbourhoods.
27. First Person Plural
    A Community Development Approach to Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Smith provides an account of his experiences and addresses the ways of building an effective and democratic orgranization to bring about social transformation. Useful for those interested in adult education, community development and political action.
28. From The Roots Up: Economic Development As If Community Mattered
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    
29. The Journal of Community Development
    Periodical profile published 1988
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
30. Land and Community 
    Crisis in Canada's Countryside
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Sim's thesis is that rural society is overlooked due to urban dependence upon "great associations," economies of scale, and other socio-cultural institutions of unmanageable size.
31. Learning from our History
    Community Development by Immigrant Women in Ontario 1958 - 1986
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    
32. The Lichen Factor
    The Quest for Community Development in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    
33. Making Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    How to effect community change as an individual or as a member of a support group, a neighborhood organization, a board of directors, or other political group. Organizing skills, conflict diagnosis and resolution, communication skills, and running meetings are a few of the skills described in the context of neighbourhood/community change.
34. New Age Business
    Community Corporations That Work
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    
35. Pragmatics of Community Organization
    First Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization.
36. Relentless Persistence
    Nonviolent Action in Latin America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
37. A Self-management Approach to Housing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    Community land trusts (CLTs) have been formed in a number of communities in the USA in response to either disinvestment or gentrification. The CLT acquires land to take it permanently off the market and make it available for the use of the community. As a democratic organization, the CLT is intended to empower the community in determining what is done with land in that area. The CLT may rehab existing buildings, build new houses or apartment buildings, or do other types of development work.
38. South Don Community Development Corporation
    Organization profile published 1983
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1983
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
    
39. Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    Richard Sennett contends that "living with people who differ -- racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically -- is the most urgent challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves, and modern politics encourages the politics of the tribe rather than of the city."
40. Toward Sustainable Communities
    Resources for Citizens and their Governments
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1998
    The way our urban communities develop will largely determine our success or failure in overcoming environmental challenges and achieving sustainable development. Toward Sustainable Communities offer practical suggestions and innovative solutions to a wide range of municipal and community problems.
41. Voices of Asian Americans
    Against The Current vol. 136
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Asian Americas: The Movement and the Moment is an anthology of some 30 entries written by Asian Americans who initiated or participated in social and community movements in the late 1960s and 1970s. It is about how they perceived the world, how they became involved in the movements, what they think they accomplished and learned through their involvement, and how their experiences and lessons shaped their own lives and can be linked to present-day struggles for social justice.

Experts on Gemeindeentwicklung in the Sources Directory

1. Community of Sahelo-Saharan States
2. East African Community
3. World Bank