Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jacques Carré

A City of One's Own (eBook, ePUB)

Blurring the Boundaries Between Private and Public

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It is often overlooked that the initiatives of private individuals and bodies have always been a major feature of urban governance in English and American cities, before, during and after the heyday of 20th-century Welfare States. This book highlights the citizens' continuous participation in a wide range of urban affairs, especially outside institutional frameworks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351962711
• Artikelnr.: 49366150

Autorenporträt

Drs Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jacques Carré and Romain Garbaye, are all at the Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, France.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Sophie Body-Gendrot
Jacques Carré and Romain Garbaye. Part 1 Planning: 'Private' and 'public' in the extension of Georgian London's West End
Jacques Carré; Making an inclusive urbanism: New York City's World Trade Memorial
Robert A. Beauregard. Part 2 Housing: The privatization of council-housing in Britain: the strange death of public sector housing?
David Fée; The governance of new communities in Britain
France and North America
1815-2004: the quest for the public interest?
Stéphane Sadoux
Frédéric Cantaroglou and Audrey Gloor. Part 3 Security: Gated communities: generic patterns in suburban landscapes?
Renaud Le Goix; From self-defence to citizenry involvement participation in law-and-order enforcement in the United States: private spheres and public space
Didier Combeau; The future of prison privatisation in the United States
Franck Vindevogel. Part 4 Health: AIDS prevention by non-governmental organizations: inside the American and French responses
Laura Hobson Faure
Carla Dillard Smith
Gloria Lockett and Benjamin P. Bowser. Part 5 Education: Education management organizations and for-profit education - an overview
and a case study: Philadelphia
Malie Montagutelli; 'We pay the rates!' Catholic voluntary schools and Scottish school boards (1872-1918) Geraldine Vaughan. Part 6 Citizenship: 'To serve and to elect': the Women's Local Government Society
Britain 1888-1918
Myriam Boussahba-Bravard; The '3rd way' and the governance of the social in Britain
Jérÿme Tournadre-Plancq. Conclusion: Jane Jacobs revisited?
Sophie Body-Gendrot
Jacques Carré and Romain Garbaye; Index.