Communities as Place, Face, and Space: Provision of Services to Poor, Urban Children and their Families: Tama Leventhal, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Sheila B. Kamerman

We would like to thank the Foundation for Child Development and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for their support of neighborhood programs and the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Children and Families, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council for their support of neighborhood research. We also would like to acknowledge the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Research Network on Child and Family Well-being. In addition, we would like to thank Mercer Sullivan for his helpful comments on the original chapter. The authors are particularly grateful to the Big Cities seminar participants at Columbia University for their stimulating discussion.