ISBN:
9780415516839
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0415516838
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 245 S.
,
24 cm
Edition:
First issued in paperback
Series Statement:
Regions and cities
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Can neighbourhoods save the city?
DDC:
307.33626
Keywords:
Community development, Urban
;
Neighborhoods Social aspects
;
Urban renewal
;
Community development, Urban
;
Neighborhoods Social aspects
;
Urban renewal
;
Fallstudiensammlung
;
Fallstudiensammlung
;
Europäische Union
;
Mitgliedsstaaten
;
Stadtteilarbeit
;
Stadtentwicklung
Abstract:
For decades, neighbourhoods have been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking to satisfy the basic human needs of deprived population groups, to increase their political capabilities and to improve social interaction both internally and between the local communities, the wider urban society and the political world.
Abstract:
Singocom-Social Innovation Governance and Community building-is the acronym of the Eu-funded project on which this book is based. Sisteen case studies of socially innovative initiatives at the neighbourhood level were carried out in nine European cities, of which ten are analysed in depth and presented here. The book compares these efforts and their results, and shows how grass-roots initiatives, alternative local movements and self-organising urban collectives are reshaping the urban scene in dynamic, creative, innovative and empowering ways. It argues that such grass-roots initiatives are vital for generating a socially cohesive urban condition that exists alongside the official state-organised forms of urban governance.
Abstract:
The book is thus a major contribution to socio-political literature, as it seeks to overcome the duality between community-development studies and strategies, and the solidarity-based making of a diverse society based upon the recognising and maintaining of citizenship rights. It will be of particular interest to both students and researchers in the fields of urban studies, social geography and political science. -- Book Jacket
Note:
"First issued in paperback 2013" -- Title page verso
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"Regional Studies Association" -- Cover
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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