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Community Bonding and Community Well-Being: Perspectives from a Community Development Council in Singapore

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This chapter examines the role of community development corporations (CDCs) in enhancing community well-being, with case analysis in Singapore. The CDC model provides an interesting experiment in finding ways to revive and recreate community. CDCs’ influence on conceptualization of community well-being is presented, as well as exploring limitations of CDCs in contributing to community well-being.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the Central Community Development Council of Singapore. For their kind assistance in the information gathering process.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Leng Leng Thang

  2. Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Seung Jong Lee

  3. Soongsil University, Seoul, South Korea

    Youngwha Kee

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Correspondence to Seung Jong Lee .

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  1. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Seung Jong Lee

  2. City & Regional Planning, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

    Yunji Kim

  3. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

    Rhonda Phillips

Appendices

Appendix A

See Table 1.

Table 1 Bonding the people and community: community programs at the Central CDC
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Appendix B

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Table 2 Bonding the people and community: community services at the Central CDC
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Thang, L.L., Lee, S.J., Kee, Y. (2015). Community Bonding and Community Well-Being: Perspectives from a Community Development Council in Singapore. In: Lee, S., Kim, Y., Phillips, R. (eds) Community Well-Being and Community Development. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12421-6_4

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