Neighborhood Development Projects
Distressed urban communities and their regeneration comprise an important and complex issues facing cities and metropolitan regions across the United States as well as globally. While there are many projects that have successfully attacked one or two particular problems of urban distress, we have very few schemes wherein entire communities have been successfully transformed.
The Center for Urban Studies (CENTER) focuses its work on neighborhood development projects that are designed to address the entire community through the development of a Social Function Model of Community Development, which ultimately can be applied to distressed urban communities wihin the Western New York metropolis and the nation. The approach is driven by the idea of developing programs, activities and projects that work across social, economic, physical and political dimensions and is based on the principles of participatory democracy, solidarity, reciprocity, collaboration and cosmopolitanism.
The City of Buffalo Poverty Reduction and Neighborhood Development Initiative
The East Side Neighborhood Transformation Partnership
The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Better Schools/Better Neighborhoods Initiative
The Fruit Belt Neighborhood Development Initiative
