Evaluating the Effects of Grass-Roots Organizing on the Community Development in Kaohsiung City

This rapid change in political-economy systems has brought a tremendous impact on the living styles, neighborhood relations, and ecology of urban communities. In this study, the researcher applies a triangulation approach integrating survey, interview, participant observation, and social action to facilitate the ideal of total community construction in the neighborhood communities in Kaohsiung.

The results show that the effects of total community construction in this city are influenced by two factors, and suggest that the community action strategy used in this study reflects a non-positive effects. In additional, the effects of total community construction in this city are also influenced by the internal and external resources of the community such as the degree of urbanization, social-economic resource, ideal of grass- roots organizing, relation of the private-public sectors, and public policy.