Issues in Evaluating Neighborhood Change: Economic Development and Community-Building IndicatorsAbstractThis paper reassesses the distinctiveness of the two major approaches to evaluating neighborhood change—socioeconomic structural change and community-building change—through an inner-city neighborhood case study. Specifically, the case study illustrates the complex interrelationship of structural neighborhood change variables such as the creation of jobs and houses to community-building change variables such as the creation of neighborhood identity and vision. The analysis of the interrelationship of these two sets of variables leads to a framework for assessment and understanding of both anticipated and unanticipated outcomes.Issues in Evaluating Neighborhood Change: Economic Development and Community-Building Indicators (*.pdf)
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