Avis Vidal

Avis Vidal

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

• Urban revitalization in legacy cities

• Community development and community capacity building

• Urban economic development

• Community organizing

• Urban policy

Education

• Ph.D, Harvard University, 1982
• M.C.R.P, Harvard University, 1973
• B.A, University of Chicago, 1967

Selected publications

• “Urban Redevelopment for the Middle Class?” The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty, Robert Rycroft, ed. (Santa Barbara: CA, Greenwood Press, 2016)
• “Living Cities: The National Community Development Initiative; Reinventing Philanthropy to Serve Poor Communities,” in Ram A. Cnaan and Diane Vinokur-Kaplan, eds. Cases in Innovative Nonprofits: Nonprofit Organizations that Make a Difference. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2014
• “Anchor-Driven Redevelopment in a Very Weak Market: The Case of Midtown, Detroit,” in Kelly L. Patterson and Robert Mark Silverman, eds., Schools and Urban Revitalization: Rethinking Institutions and Community Development. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London, 2013
• "Urban Redevelopment," in Andrew T. Carswell, Ed, The Encyclopedia of Housing, 2nd Edition. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks CA, 2012
• “Housing and Community Development,” in Lester Salamon, Ed., The State of the Nonprofit Sector, 2nd edition. The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 2012
• Beyond Housing: Growing Community Development Support Systems (with Langley Keyes). Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., 2004
• Building Community Capacity (with Rob Chaskin, Prudence Brown, and Sudhir Venkatesh). Aldine de Gruyter, Amsterdam, 2001