Asset-Based Community Dev is a good basis for beginning to understand the latent and explicit capacity of a neighborhood. My concern with the approach is that it often focuses on communities larger than neighborhoods. It seems to lack sufficiently powerful concepts, methods, and tools to successfully reimagine and relocalize creativity at the neighborhood level.
# Principles that guide ABCD include: * **Everyone** has gifts: Each person in a community has something to contribute. * **Relationships** build a community: People must be connected in order for sustainable community development to take place. * **Citizens** at the center: Citizens should be viewed as actors—not recipients—in development. * **Leaders** involve others: Community development is strongest when it involves a broad base of community action. * **People care**: Challenge notions of "apathy" by listening to people's interests. * Listen: Decisions should come from **conversations** where people are heard. * **Ask**: Asking for ideas is more sustainable than giving solutions. * **Inside-out** organization: Local community members are in control. * **Institutions serve the community**: Institutional leaders should create opportunities for community-member involvement, then "step back."
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