Xavier de Souza Briggs

Xavier de Souza Briggs is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. An urban sociologist and planner by training, he writes, speaks, and consults on urban strategies. He was Planning Coordinator for the nationally awarded planning efforts of the Comprehensive Community Revitalization Program, a demonstration project in five of the poorest neighborhoods of the South Bronx. His published work includes From Neighborhood to Community: Evidence on the Social Effects of Community Development (with E. Mueller), the first-ever empirical study of the impacts of community-based development organizations on residents lives, along with articles and essays on public deliberation, social capital and community building, housing policy, and poverty issues.

A short bio and pubblications informations are available at the following internet address:
http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/degreeprog/courses.nsf/aba163361f7adf748525676600686c40/d4236ac61ce89f5185256944000fa884?OpenDocument

Further informations are available at the following internet address: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/saguaro/desouza.html