1st Edition

Can Neighbourhoods Save the City? Community Development and Social Innovation

264 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Social Innovation and Community Development: Concepts and Theories  2. Historical Roots of Social Change: Philosophies and Movements  3. ALMOLIN: How to Analyse Social Innovation at the Local Level  4. Kommunales Forum Wedding – Innovation in Local Governance in Berlin  5. Arts Factory, Rhondda Cynon Taff, South Wales  6. Social Exclusion/Inclusion and Innovation in the Neighbourhood of Epeule (Roubaix). The Case of the Association Alentour  7. The End of Social Innovation in Urban Development Strategies? Neighbourhood Development Corporations in Antwerp  8. How do you Build a Shared Interest? Olinda - a Case of Social Innovation Between Strategy and Organizational Learning in Milano  9. Centro Sociale Leoncavallo - Milan - Italy. A building-block for an Enlarged Citizenship in Milan  10. Associazione Quartieri Spagnoli (AQS) - Naples  11. New Deal for Communities in Newcastle  12. The Ouseburn Valley. A Struggle to Innovate in the Context of a Weak Local State  13. The Contradictions of Controlled Modernisation: Local Area Management in Vienna  14. Self-determined Urban Interventions as Tools for Social Innovation: The Case of City Mine(d) in Brussels  15. Creative Designing the Urban Future: Building on Experiences - A Transversal Analysis of Socially Innovative Case-Studies  16. Socially Innovative Projects, Governance Dynamics and Urban Change: A Policy Framework

Biography

Frank Moulaert is Professor of Spatial Planning at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and Visiting Professor at Newcastle University (Planning Department) and MESHE (CNRS, Lille, France).

Flavia Martinelli is professor of Analysis of territorial systems at the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy. She works on the dynamics of socioeconomic development and disparities – at the local, regional, international scale – and on actions to govern territorial transformations and support the development of depressed areas. 

Sara Gonzalez is Lecturer in Human Critical Geography at the School of Geography, University of Leeds and the Spanish editor of ACME. Her research focuses on issues around urban political economy, territorial governance and uneven development particularly in European cities.

Erik Swyngedouw is Professor of Geography at Manchester University. He has published extensively on urban political economy and urban political ecology, urban governance, and socio-spatial theory.