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Spatial Justice and Cohesion: The Role of Place-Based Action in Community Development book cover

1st Edition

Spatial Justice and Cohesion The Role of Place-Based Action in Community Development

Edited By Matti Fritsch, Petri Kahila, Sarolta Németh, James W. Scott Copyright 2024
312 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Place-based strategies are widely discussed as powerful instruments of economic and community development. In terms of the European debate, the local level – cities, towns and neighbourhoods – has recently come under increased scrutiny as a potentially decisive actor in Cohesion Policy. As understandings of socio-spatial and economic cohesion evolve, the idea that spatial justice requires a... Read more

　

01. Introduction: the RELOCAL perspective (Matti Fritsch, Petri Kahila, Sarolta Németh and James W. Scott) Part 1. Cohesion and the Role of Localities: Research and Policy Debates 02. The localities approach: (European) Cohesion, spatial justice and the development role of place (James W. Scott) 03. Spatial justice and locality: The conceptual framework and its application (Ali Madanipour, Elizabeth Brooks, Mark Shucksmith and Hilary Talbot) Part 2. Spatial Justice in Local Development 04. Approaching spatial justice in local practices: A European comparative perspective on promoters, inhibitors and achievements (Peter Schmitt and Sabine Weck) 05. Stigmatization and cultural foundations of spatial injustice (Enikő Vincze, Cristina Bădiță and Iulia-Elena Hossu} 06. Drivers of place-based community development: Perceptions of spatial injustice and the role of institutionally embedded responses (Judit Keller and Tünde Virág) 07. Towards spatial justice across Europe through place-based interventions. Lessons learned from considering medium-horizon future scenarios (Paulina Tobiasz-Lis, Karolina Dmochowska-Dudek, Marcin Wójcik, Simone Piras, Margaret Currie, Dominic Duckett and Andrew Copus) 08. The RELOCAL case studies approach (Sarolta Németh and Sabine Weck) Part 3. Urban Case Studies 09. Innovation and governance to halt urban fragmentation: The case of the Commission for a Socially Sustainable Stockholm (Thomas Borén) 10. PLACE/Ladywell housing project, London: A temporary local project with metropolitan impacts. (Ali Madanipour, Elizabeth Brooks and Mark Shucksmith) 11. Incomplete justice is no justice: Learning from the neoliberal and elitist planning experiences of Euralens and EPA Alzette-Belval (Cyril Blondel and Estelle Evrard) Part 4. Rural Case Studies 12. Polarization, centralization and place-based policies in Greece (Lefteris Topaloglou, George Petrakos, Victor Cupcea and Aggeliki Anagnostou) 13. The struggle against territorial disadvantage in a peripheral Finnish town: Balancing between effectiveness and democratic accountability in local government (Matti Fritsch, Sarolta Németh and Petri Kahila) 14. Autonomy and spatial justice in rural LEADER - A case study comparison between Hungary, Romania and England (Katalin Kovács, Elizabeth Brooks, George Zamfir, Mark Shucksmith and Gusztáv Nemes) Part 5. Conclusions and Policy Considerations 15. Conclusions and policy considerations – what does local experience tell us? (Matti Fritsch, Petri Kahila, Sarolta Németh and James W. Scott)

　

Biography

Matti Fritsch is a Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies at the Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland.

Petri Kahila is an Adjunct Professor of Economic Geography and the Director of the Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland.

Sarolta Németh is Project Researcher at the Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland.

James W. Scott is a Researcher in Regional and Border Studies at the Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland.

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