Can Neighbourhoods Save the City? (eBook, ePUB)

Community Development and Social Innovation
Redaktion: Moulaert, Frank; Gonzalez, Sara; Martinelli, Flavia; Swyngedouw, Erik

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136953224
• Artikelnr.: 43073338

Autorenporträt

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, international scale - and on actions to govern territorial transformations and support the development of depressed areas. Sara Gonzalez is Lecturer in Human Critical Geography at the School of Geography, University of Leeds and the Spanish editor of ACME. Her research focuses on issues around urban political economy, territorial governance and uneven development particularly in European cities. Erik Swyngedouw is Professor of Geography at Manchester University. He has published extensively on urban political economy and urban political ecology, urban governance, and socio-spatial theory.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Social Innovation and Community Development: Concepts and Theories 2.
Historical Roots of Social Change: Philosophies and Movements 3. ALMOLIN:
How to Analyse Social Innovation at the Local Level 4. Kommunales Forum
Wedding - Innovation in Local Governance in Berlin 5. Arts Factory, Rhondda
Cynon Taff, South Wales 6. Social Exclusion/Inclusion and Innovation in the
Neighbourhood of Epeule (Roubaix). The Case of the Association Alentour 7.
The End of Social Innovation in Urban Development Strategies? Neighbourhood
Development Corporations in Antwerp 8. How do you Build a Shared Interest?
Olinda - a Case of Social Innovation Between Strategy and Organizational
Learning in Milano 9. Centro Sociale Leoncavallo - Milan - Italy. A
building-block for an Enlarged Citizenship in Milan 10. Associazione
Quartieri Spagnoli (AQS) - Naples 11. New Deal for Communities in Newcastle
12. The Ouseburn Valley. A Struggle to Innovate in the Context of a Weak
Local State 13. The Contradictions of Controlled Modernisation: Local Area
Management in Vienna 14. Self-determined Urban Interventions as Tools for
Social Innovation: The Case of City Mine(d) in Brussels 15. Creative
Designing the Urban Future: Building on Experiences - A Transversal
Analysis of Socially Innovative Case-Studies 16. Socially Innovative
Projects, Governance Dynamics and Urban Change: A Policy Framework