Community Preservation Amid Urban Transformation

Case Study Review and Reflection In Rhoda Halperin’s Practicing Community: Class, Culture, and Power in an Urban Neighborhood, over six years of anthropological research was conducted in the East End community of Cincinnati, Ohio. This book presented how East Enders were wanting to preserve their community as it was subjected to sudden changes, such as urban and economic developments. Halperin included narratives and viewpoints from various East Enders in order to voice the community and their concerns, additionally allowing readers to envision how the community was progressing through the variations of development. In conclusion of reading Practicing Community, I was able to fully understand how topics learned in class correlated with the purpose of the book.
Overall, I considered the book to be a very interesting read. In Practicing Community, I was able to empathize with the community of the East End through the book. In my opinion, Halperin did an

It appears to be a term that is used commonly, yet there is not a specific definition to interpret what it really means. Personally, I believe that community consists of kinship networks among residents of a certain area, different routines that contribute to the “well-being” of a region, furthermore the culture of this area. For the East End, “practicing community” is a phrase that is of importance with the circumstances regarding what the community was undergoing during that period of time. “Practicing community” describes the long-term, determined efforts of East Enders with the intention of maintaining the community from undertaking the modifications, however this process assists in providing a sense of peace to East Enders while they cope with the underlying problems at hand (Halperin 1998). Throughout the book, East Enders were practicing community in order to save their community from being modified by condominiums and other buildings that would destroy its