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

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.3/3626
• Soggetto topico: Community development, Urban; Neighborhoods - Social aspects; Urban renewal
• Altri autori: MoulaertFrank
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1 Social innovation and community development: Concepts, theories and challenges; 2 Historical roots of social change: Philosophies and movements; 3 ALMOLIN: How to analyse social innovation at the local level?; 4 Social innovation in the wake of urban movements: The Centro Sociale Leoncavallo in Milan: a case of 'flexible institutionalisation'; 5 Building a shared interest: Olinda, Milan: social innovation between strategy and organisational learning ; 6 How to make neighbourhoods act?: The Associazione Quartieri Spagnoli in Naples7 Social inclusion and exclusion in the neighbourhood of L'Epeule, Roubaix: The innovative role of the Alentour Association; 8 Arts Factory in Ferndale, South Wales: Renegotiating social relations in a traditional working-class community; 9 The Ouseburn Trust in Newcastle: A struggle to innovate in the context of a weak local state; 10 New Deal for Communities, Newcastle: Innovating neighbourhood regeneration policy in the context of a strong central government ; 11 Autonomy and inclusive urban governance: A case of glocal action: City Mine(d) in Brussels12 The end of social innovation in urban development strategies?: The case of BOM in Antwerp; 13 The limits of 'controlled modernisation': The Grätzelmanagement experience in Vienna; 14 Creatively designing urban futures: A transversal analysis of socially innovative initiatives; 15 Socially innovative projects, governance dynamics and urban change: Between state and self-organisation; Appendix: Historical roots of social movements; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking to satisfy the basic human needs of deprived population groups, to increase their political capabilities and to improve social interaction both internally and between the local communities, the wider urban society and political world. SINGOCOM - Social INnovation GOvernance and COMm
• Titolo autorizzato: Can neighbourhoods save the city
• ISBN: 1-136-95322-1; 1-136-95323-X; 1-282-73293-5; 9786612732935; 0-203-84913-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809086903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Regions and cities.