| Resilience in the Post-Welfare Inner City: Voluntary Sector Geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney Contributor(s): Deverteuil, Geoffrey (Author) |
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ISBN: 1447316649 ISBN-13: 9781447316640 Publisher: Policy Press OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development - Business & Economics | Nonprofit Organizations & Charities - General |
| Dewey: 361.7 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.75 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Australian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'Resilience' has become one of the first fully fledged academic and political buzzwords of the 21st century. Within this context, Geoffrey DeVerteuil proposes a more critically engaged and conceptually robust version, applying it to the conspicuous but now residual clusters of inner-city voluntary sector organisations deemed 'service hubs'. The process of resilience is compared across ten service hubs in three complex but different global inner-city regions - London, Los Angeles and Sydney - in response to the threat of gentrification-induced displacement. DeVerteuil shows that resilience can be about holding on to previous gains but also about holding out for transformation. The book is the first to move beyond theoretical works on 'resilience' and offers a combined conceptual and empirical approach that will interest urban geographers, social planners and researchers in the voluntary sector. |
Contributor Bio(s): Deverteuil, Geoffrey: - Geoffrey DeVerteuil is a senior lecturer on social geography at Cardiff University. |
