"Few people in this country know as much about community building as Jim Diers. The case studies and ideas in this book are extremely powerful evidence that real communities are knit together by the public places they share, and show how small ideas from ordinary citizens can make an entire city thriving and beautiful." - Fred Kent, President, Project for Public Spaces

There is a global movement of people at the grassroots who are innovating new approaches to wealth creation and distribution. They recognise that the current dominant models are not only creating greater inequalities among people and damaging the environment. They also note that these are unsustainable ways and therefore have ventured to create their little revolution for social justice.

'Learning by Doing: Community-led Change in Aotearoa NZ’ draws on three years of experience from around the country and provides tools, resources, stories and learnings to help support and grow community-led development thinking and action. It presents latest thinking, learning, examples and results from community-led activity right across Aotearoa.

It's a 'must have' handbook for people and organisations wanting to contribute to successful community-led development outcomes!

Traditional economic development and regeneration programmes have often failed to make any sustained impact on the problems of economic decline and social exclusion experienced in communities across the UK, including Bristol. Community based economic development approaches have emerged in response to the failure of prescriptive top down approaches. They emphasise the importance of encouraging local economic activity to ensure that investment can be drawn into priority areas and that the wealth generated from these activities can be retained within the community.