Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?: Community Development and Soc

Name: Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?: Community Development and Soc
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?Community Development and Social Innovation\nAuthor(s): Frank Salamone\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415516839, 978-0415516839\nSynopsis\nFor 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. \n\nSINGOCOM - Social INnovation GOvernance and COMmunity building is the acronym of the EU-funded project on which this book is based. Sixteen case studies of socially-innovative initiatives at the neighbourhood le.