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Account of C. W. Adams with Cadet F. Perkins showing the purchase of a pair of shoes.

Account of Cadet Francis W. Babcock with C. W. Adams showing the purchase of a pair of shoes.

Account of Cadet John Hudson with C. W. Adams for a pair of shoes.

Account of Cadet Babcock with C. W. Adams for a pair of shoes.

In seeking to purge what he seems to regard as the dangerously insidious views of an academic 'gang of four',Dr Alan Dyer has certainly eschewed gentle persuasion as the appropriate way of re-converting erring heretics. Being apparently the worst offender - and bedaubed in penitential ashes, as I clearly ought to be - it is then hardly for me to answer for the views of my fellow conspirators: Peter Clark, Paul Slack and Penelope Corfield. They are well able to stand up for themselves. All I have space to do here is to reflect on Dr Dyer's re-assertion of the neutralist text-book orthodoxy regarding the state of England's towns in the earlier Tudor period, and so to ponder whether a recantation of my own seemingly obsessional sins might be appropriate. I certainly do not intend simply to reiterate what the disinterested follower of this discussion might wish to read for himself, the actual arguments of my 1975 paper, with its qualifying remarks and its 'handful' of 75 urban examples.

This article examines recent efforts to establish Community Partnership Grant Programmes (CPG) in six South African communities which provide the financial and organizational infrastructure to support citizen-initiated neighbourhood projects. The authors review their efforts to disseminate the CPG programme model in three different environments in South Africa - a large metropolitan area, three smaller municipalities and two tribal villages - and analyse why preliminary implementation results were positive in some communities but not others. Our findings form the basis of a model of CPG programme implementation based on the mode of implementation and the breadth of stakeholder involvement. We use this model to make recommendations to increase the likelihood of implementation success for similar programmes. (InWent/DÜI)