GEOG 352 – Day 2

1. GEOG 352 – Day 2 Community Capital Framework

2. Start reading Chapter 1 of Lewis and Conaty for next week. • I introduced a lot of new concepts and terminology last time. Is there anything that you want to review? • Today we’ll look at the concept of capital, and the different forms it can take if we expand our definition of what it encompasses. • What does the term ‘capital’ mean to you when you hear it? Housekeeping Items

3. Did you get a chance to read the pages from Roseland on-line? • Roseland argues for dividing capital for community planning and development purposes into six varieties: • natural • physical • economic • human • social, and • cultural Forms of Capital

4. How would you characterize each of these forms of capital? • natural • physical • economic • human • social, and • cultural Forms of Capital

5. Now let’s take two cases – one negative and one positive – and apply them: Detroit and the movement for a Sustainable South Bronx. Applying the Concepts

6. Detroit – in the current circumstances, what is occurring in each of these categories? • natural • physical • economic • human • social, and • cultural Applying the Concepts

7. Sustainable South Bronx – with the current initiatives,what is occurring in each of these categories, at least on a small scale? • natural • physical • economic • human • social, and • cultural Applying the Concepts

8. From going through this exercise, we get a • sense of how each of these forms of capital • are inter-related with the other forms. • Is this something you have experienced in • other contexts? Applying the Concepts