The key to sustainable communities in the urban community is to practice co-operative economics. The motto "For Us By Us' should be a mantra taught from grade school to high school in our communities. Whether in school, church, after school program, sports activity, young people should be taught to learn to be self sufficient.
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Let's take a look at Community Development.
Foundations of Community Development.
Critical to the foundation of community development is inclusion by community residents in the processes involving the planning and implementation of new initiatives. By definition, community development is "planned intervention to stimulate social change for the explicit purpose of the betterment of the people" Summers, (1986:360). The betterment of the people implies that people who make up a community eventually receive some benefit to enhance either their economic, educational or cultural lives. The degree to which community development does or not seek participation by community membership groups determines to some extent the beneficial outcome to its proposed beneficiaries. A well informed and educated community is the biggest asset to any plan to improve the quality of life.