Community Development Project (Home Office) papers.

Description

Comprises: (1) Planning papers, research reports, and administrative papers and correspondence of the Project between 1967 and 1975; (2) Many books on economic history and pamphlets on urban development in Britain and other parts of Europe dated from ca. 1945 onwards, including a minority of foreign publications, such as a few in Swedish.

Biography or history

The Community Development Project was formed by the Home Office as 'a modest attempt at action/research into the better understanding and more comprehensive tackling of social needs, especially in local communities within the older urban areas, through closer co-ordination of central and local official and unofficial effort, informed and stimulated by citizen initiative and involvement'. It was the first time that central and local government had made a joint venture into this field. Started in 1967, the programme in Britain had by 1973 reached the planned total of twelve areas.

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