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Rethinking Community Practice: Developing Transformative Neighbourhoods
Gabriel Chanan
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Description for Rethinking Community Practice: Developing Transformative Neighbourhoods
Hardback. Combining re-examination of theory with practical tools and approaches, Chanan and Miller provide a new framework for local involvement strategy. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFS; JKSN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 172 x 18. .
As local communities and public services reel under the impact of global economic turmoil, it is vital to find more creative ways for the services to work together with those who depend on them and who also, as citizens, ultimately govern them. Community practice is the name for that growing part of the relationship by which service providers and local residents collaborate flexibly and economically to meet needs, boost community strengths and service effectiveness, and link participative and representative democracy. Combining re-examination of theory with practical tools and approaches, Chanan and Miller provide a new framework for local involvement strategy, ... Read more
As local communities and public services reel under the impact of global economic turmoil, it is vital to find more creative ways for the services to work together with those who depend on them and who also, as citizens, ultimately govern them. Community practice is the name for that growing part of the relationship by which service providers and local residents collaborate flexibly and economically to meet needs, boost community strengths and service effectiveness, and link participative and representative democracy. Combining re-examination of theory with practical tools and approaches, Chanan and Miller provide a new framework for local involvement strategy, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bristol University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447300106
SKU
V9781447300106
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Ref
99-50
About Gabriel Chanan
Gabriel Chanan MBE is a researcher and strategist on community engagement and development. He has played a leading part in modernising community development, and embedding commitment to strengthening communities in public policy. Colin Miller is a researcher and consultant on community empowerment. He has extensive experience as a practitioner and manager and has played an important role in developing ... Read more
Reviews for Rethinking Community Practice: Developing Transformative Neighbourhoods
Rethinking Community Practice provides inspiring case studies together with sound principles and a concrete strategy that give readers a sense that true agency-community partnerships are not only desirable but eminently doable. Activists, agencies and academicians can all put this book to good use. Jim Diers, formerly City of Seattle Department of Neighbourhoods "This book pushes all the right buttons. It ... Read more