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Frank Moulaert - Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?: Community Development and Social Innovation - 9780415516839 - V9780415516839
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Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?: Community Development and Social Innovation

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Description for Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?: Community Development and Social Innovation Paperback. Instead of a top-down approach, this book looks at the impact of bottom-up neighbourhood based initiatives. It analyses and documents a variety of innovative local urban strategies in European cities and their impact on wider urban socio-economic and political restructuring processes. Editor(s): Moulaert, Frank; Swyngedouw, Erik; Martinelli, Flavia; Gonzalez, Sara. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 18 black & white tables, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 414.

For decades, neighbourhoods 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 political world.

SINGOCOM - Social INnovation GOvernance and COMmunity building – is the acronym of the EU-funded project on which this book is based. Sixteen case studies of socially-innovative initiatives ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415516839
SKU
V9780415516839
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Frank Moulaert
Frank Moulaert is Professor of Spatial Planning at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and Visiting Professor at Newcastle University (Planning Department) and MESHE (CNRS, Lille, France). Flavia Martinelli is professor of Analysis of territorial systems at the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy. She works on the dynamics of socioeconomic development and disparities – at the local, regional, ... Read more

Reviews for Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?: Community Development and Social Innovation
"A common criticism of edited volumes is that they can sometimes be little more than a loosely connected series of chapters. However, Can Neighbourhoods Save the City does not fall into this trap. Not only are the empirical chapters, which form the body of the book, connected through a commonly considered analytical framework, but a solid narrative draws the reader ... Read more

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