Community Action and Planning - 9781447315162

Community Action and PlanningContexts, Drivers and Outcomes\nAuthor(s): Nick Gallent, Daniela Ciaffi\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Policy Press\nISBN-13: 9781447315162, 978-1447315162\nSynopsis\nWith 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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nIt will be a valuable reso.