{"pk":3554,"title":"Bridging the Macro with the Micro Through the Lived Experiences of the Community: The Calcha of Bolivia and Community Development Planning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Community development planning depends, for its success, on a bottom-up approach and a depe understanding of local culture. In this paper, a case of economic development planning invoMng the Calcha, an ethnic group living in southern Bolivia, is used to illustrate how different the understanding of a same reality can be for planners and for local residents. Planners are urged to look at communities not as given objects but as cultural entities being continu­ ously created and adapted through the interpretive work of individuals and households interacting with one another and with their changing environment.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4f1122sd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Marcelo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cruz","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-07-26T00:52:18Z","date_accepted":"2012-07-26T00:52:18Z","date_published":"1991-07-25T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucb_crp_bpj/article/3554/galley/2311/download/"}]}