Physical-economic models of neighborhood change, popularly used by neighborhood planners, are beginning to give way to more politically oriented models. The experience of Pennsylvania's Neighborhood Preservation Support System prototype projects provides evidence of this shift. Such models do not call for blind community control, but for facili tating the development of neighborhood political capacities.
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