| Community Action and Planning: Contexts, Drivers and Outcomes Contributor(s): Gallent, Nick (Editor), Ciaffi, Daniela (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1447315170 ISBN-13: 9781447315179 Publisher: Policy Press OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development |
| Dewey: 307.12 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.20 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of their own lives and neighbourhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and the planning undertaken at this level, attempting to regularise it and use it as a means of reconnecting to citizens and localising democracy. This unique book analyses the contexts, drivers and outcomes of community action and planning in a selection of case studies in the global north: from emergent neighbourhood planning in England to the community-based housing movement in New York, and from active citizenship in the Dutch new towns to associative action in Marseille. It will be a valuable resource for academic researchers and for postgraduate students on social policy, planning and community development courses. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ciaffi, Daniela: - Daniela Ciaffi is professor of urban sociology in the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Palermo.Gallent, Nick: - Nick Gallent is professor of housing and planning and head of the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London. He is coauthor of Rural Second Homes in Europe and Delivering New Homes. |