Urban sustainability and governance [[electronic resource] ] : new changes in Nordic-Baltic housing policies / / Arild Holt-Jensen, Eric Pollock, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465537403321
• Autore: Holt-Jensen Arild
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2009
• ISBN: 1-61324-187-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): PollockEric
• Disciplina: 363.50948
• Soggetti: Housing policy - Baltic States; Housing policy - Scandinavia; Sustainable urban development - Baltic states; Sustainable urban development - Scandinavia; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""URBAN SUSTAINABILITY AND GOVERNANCE:NEW CHALLENGES IN NORDIC-BALTIC HOUSING POLICIES""; ""URBAN SUSTAINABILITY AND GOVERNANCE: NEW CHALLENGES IN NORDIC-BALTIC HOUSING POLICIES ""; ""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF FIGURES AND FIGURE TEXTS""; ""LIST OF TABLES""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""LIST OF AUTHORS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE TEXT""; ""INTRODUCTION: NORTHERN EUROPE -BETWEEN THE EAST AND WEST""; ""STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK""; ""REFERENCES""; ""HOUSING POLICIES, PATH DEPENDENCIES AND PRESENT CHALLENGES""; ""1.1. INTRODUCTION: THE URBAN FUTURE""; ""1.2. THE HOUSING CHALLENGES""; ""1.3. APPLIED THEORY""""1.4 PHASES OF HOUSING POLICY EVOLUTION IN THE NORDIC AND THE BALTIC COUNTRIES""; ""1.5. CHALLENGES CAUSED BY GLOBALISATION AND ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING""; ""REFERENCES""; ""HOUSING IN THE SUSTAINABLE CITY ISSUES FOR AN INTEGRATED APPROACH 1""; ""2.1. SUSTAINABILITY - CLARIFYING THE CONCEPTS""; ""2.2 HOUSING IN THE SUSTAINABLE CITY""; ""2.3.MAIN CHALLENGES IN THE HOUSING SECTOR AND THE NEED FOR AN INTEGRATED APPROACH""; ""State of Affairs""; ""Sustainable ; Development: What is Good Enough?""; ""Processes of Change""; ""2.4. CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""GOVERNANCE AND SOCIAL CAPITAL AS TOOLS FOR NEIGHBOURHOOD REGENERATION""""3.1.WHAT IS GOVERNANCE?""; ""3.2.WHAT IS SOCIAL CAPITAL?""; ""3.3. ACTIONS FOR SOCIAL CAPITAL IN GOVERNANCE""; ""3.4. GOVERNANCE ARRANGEMENTS IN NEIGHBOURHOOD REGENERATION""; ""3.5. OBSTACLES TO GOVERNANCE""; ""3.6. Effective Neighbourhood Governance""; ""Improving Residents Ability to Give Voice""; ""Governance Arrangements for Handling Conflicts among Residents""; ""Linking Formal and Informal Activities into Governance Arrangements""; ""3.7. VALUE-CREATION""; ""3.8. CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""PLANNING THEORIES AND DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES. PAST DEPENDENCIES CONTRA NEW IDEOLOGY: IMPACT OF PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT""""4. 1. INTRODUCTION""; ""4.2. DEVELOPMENT AND REPLACEMENT OF PLANNING PARADIGMS""; ""4. 3. REGIONAL PLANNING AND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT DURING THE STATE SOCIALISM""; ""4.3.1. The Heritage of Soviet Planning: Theory""; ""4.3.2. The Consequences of the Soviet Planning: Practice""; ""4.4 DEVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION OF PLANNING AFTER SOCIALISM""; ""4.4.1. Application of New Legislation""; ""4.4.2. Past-Dependencies of the Soviet Era and New Planning System""; ""4.5. HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AND IMPACT OF PLANNING â€? ESTONIAN CASE""""4.5.1. Data Set and the Classification of Centres""; ""4.5.2. Progress of Housing Construction during the Soviet Period""; ""4.5.3. Transitional Collapse of Housing Constructionand the Start of Urban Sprawl""; ""4.5.4. The Impact of Development Practices on Sustainability of Housing""; ""4.6. CONCLUSION""; ""The Planning Cultures of Soviet and Post-Soviet Pragmatism""; ""REFERENCES""; ""THE NORDIC STATES INTRODUCTION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""HOUSING AND SOCIAL COHESION, NATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS SWEDEN""; ""5.1. NATIONAL PRESENTATION""