Can neighbourhoods save the city? : community development and social innovation

Can neighbourhoods save the city? : community development and social innovation / edited by Frank Moulaert [and others].

Offers a look at the impact of bottom-up neighbourhood based initiatives. This book analyses and documents a variety of local urban strategies in European cities and their impact on wider urban socio-economic and political restructuring processes.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Regional Studies Association (Seaford, England)
Other Authors: Moulaert, Frank
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Series:Regions and cities.
Subjects:
Community development, Urban.
Neighborhoods > Social aspects.
Urban renewal.
urban renewal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Community development, Urban
Neighborhoods > Social aspects
Urban renewal
quartier (urbanisme) > rénovation > études diverses.
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Table of Contents:
  • Social innovation and community development: concepts, theories and challenges / Frank Moulaert
  • Historical roots of social change : philosophies and movements / Flavia Martinelli
  • ALMOLIN: how to analyse social innovation at the local level? / Sara González, Frank Moulaert and Flavia Martinelli
  • Social innovation in the wake of urban movements. The Centro Sociale Leoncavallo in Milan: a case of 'flexible institutionalisation' / Andrea Membretti
  • Building a shared interest. Olinda, Milan: social innovation between strategy and organisational learning / Tommaso Vitale
  • How to make neighbourhoods act? The Associazione Quartieri Spagnoli in Naples / Lucia Cavola, Paola di Martino and Pasquale de Muro
  • Social inclusion and exclusion in the neighbourhood of L'Epeule, Roubaix: the innovative role of the Alentour Association / Oana Ailenei and Bénédicte Lefebvre
  • Arts Factory in Ferndale, South Wales : renegotiating social relations in a traditional working-class community / Sophie Donaldson and Liz Court
  • The Ouseburn Trust in Newcastle: a struggle to innovate in the context of a weak local state / Sara González and Geoff Vigar
  • New Deal for Communities, Newcastle: innovating neighbourhood regeneration policy in the context of a strong central government / Jon Coaffee
  • Autonomy and inclusive urban governance. A case of glocal action: City Mine(d) in Brussels / Johan Moyersoen
  • The end of social innovation in urban development strategies? The case of BOM in Antwerp / Frank Moulaert and Etienne Christiaens
  • The limits of 'controlled modernisation': the Grätzelmanagement experience in Vienna / Andreas Novy, Elizabeth Hammer and Bernhard Leubolt
  • Creatively designing urban futures: a transversal analysis of socially innovative initiatives / Flavia Martinelli, Frank Moulaert and Sara González
  • Socially innovative projects, governance dynamics and urban change: between state and self-organisation / Erik Swyngedouw and Frank Moulaert.

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