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Book SynopsisExamines social capital across social contexts and time periods within the city and the role of social networks, moving beyond typical definitions of social capital
Trade Review"This book is an important corrective to somewhat bland and self-evident understandings of social capital which tend to ignore the deeply contested nature of urban space." -City
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Place that Loves You Back? - Richardson Dilworth Part I: Social Capital in Historical Context 1 The 1876 Centennial in Philadelphia: Elite Networks and Political Culture - Jerome Hodos; 2 Bonfires, Fistfights, and Roaring Cannons: Election Day and the Creation of Social Capital in the City of Philadelphia - Mark Brewin; 3 Community Advocacy and Volunteerism in Wissahickon Park, 1895-2005 - David R. Contosta and Carol L. Franklin Part II: Social Capital in Urban Education 4 Leveraging Social Capital: The University as Educator and Broker - Barbara Ferman; 5 Community-Based Education in West Philadelphia: The Promise and Limits of Social Capital Production - Melina Patterson Part III: Neighborhood-Based Social Capital and Local Institutions 6 Credit Unions and Social Capital in Philadelphia - Michael Janson; 7 The Comparative Disadvantage of African American-Owned Enterprises: Ethnic Succession and Social Capital in Black Communities - Jennifer Lee; 8 Whose Social Capital? How Economic Development Projects Disrupt Local Social Relations - Judith Goode and Robert T. O'Brien; 9 Rootedness, Isolation, and Social Capital in an Inner-City White Neighborhood - Patricia Stern Smallacombe; 10 Wellsprings of Social Capital: African American Churchwomen in Philadelphia - Valeria Harvell Conclusion: The Declining Political Value of Social Capital - Matthew Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg
