Urban Development With Community Initiatives

Author : Michael Carley,Harry Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134200504

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Urban Development and Civil Society by Michael Carley,Harry Smith Pdf

The world's population is rapidly urbanizing but the affluence and development often associated with cities are far from equitably or sustainably distributed. Where it was once taken for granted that responsibility for urban development lay with the state, increasingly the emphasis has shifted to market-driven and public-private sector initiatives, which can marginalize the intended beneficiaries - the urban poor - from decision making and implementation. This text outlines the essential conditions for effective urban planning and management by placing bottom-up community initiatives at the heart of the push for equitable and sustainable development in cities. Crucially, the state must engage with both the market and civil society in pursuit of sustainable cities. Presenting a wide-ranging selection of case studies in rapidly urbanizing and transitional countries, from the poorest parts of Africa and Asia to the relatively developed United Kingdom, the authors describe and analyze innovations in how globally disadvantaged urban communities can be engaged in improving their living environments.

Author : Marcos L. Rosa,Ute E. Weiland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3868592253

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Handmade Urbanism by Marcos L. Rosa,Ute E. Weiland Pdf

People have always been interested in the cities in which they live. With the world‘s stark urbanization, the engagement of citizens to improve their urban environments is also growing. Far from the traditional urban planning culture, they make use of limited resources, offering solutions to face the challenges these cities offer. They focus on the provision of social infrastructure aiming to improve the living conditions of the residents at the local scale. Handmade Urbanism showcases 15 projects realized mostly in less favored areas of five major cities in emerging countries, examining the potential of urban transformation embedded in community initiatives. What is the basis for such initiatives? Which are the instruments and tools they use? Illustrations depict their operational modes, reveal the actors involved and trace the steps they made in the organization of the initiatives. Interviews with experts, actors and different stakeholders clarify their meaning towards the local challenges. At a global level, common threads and differences are made clear.Handmade Urbanism drafts a possible urban vision of the city impacted by those processes and organizes a discussion that promotes participatory initiatives while exploring their potential to impact on the city at large – to the benefit of all.The publication includes the documentary The Future of Cities, which provides the reader with further information from the ground.

Author : G. Surya Rao
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8171568955

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Urban Development with Community Initiatives by G. Surya Rao Pdf

This Book Is A Compendium Of Experiences Over The Last 40 Years In The Field Of Community Development And Working With People.People And Communities Are The Only References In This Book. So The Readers Do Not Have To Find A Separate Bibliography.Some Of The Lessons That Emanate From This Book Lay Emphasis On :Not To Ignore The Ability And Ingenuity Of The Poor. Facilitate Him/Her To Think And Act.If People Have The Will They Can Find A Way Out For A Meaningful Development.Human Resource Is Inexhaustible In Our Society For Individual S And Society S Benefit. Proper Way Must Be Found To Tap It In The Right Direction.By Doing Community Development Work, Not Only Other Are Benefitted But We Are Also Benefitted Simultaneously.Educate, Organise And Empower These Are The Powerful Keys For Participatory Development. By Glancing The Book, The Readers Will Identify Them In The Right Perspective.

Author : Ronald F. Ferguson,William T. Dickens
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815719817

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Urban Problems and Community Development by Ronald F. Ferguson,William T. Dickens Pdf

In recent years, concerned governments, businesses, and civic groups have launched ambitious programs of community development designed to halt, and even reverse, decades of urban decline. But while massive amounts of effort and money are being dedicated to improving the inner-cities, two important questions have gone unanswered: Can community development actually help solve long-standing urban problems? And, based on social science analyses, what kinds of initiatives can make a difference? This book surveys what we currently know and what we need to know about community development's past, current, and potential contributions. The authors--economists, sociologists, political scientists, and a historian--define community development broadly to include all capacity building (including social, intellectual, physical, financial, and political assets) aimed at improving the quality of life in low- to moderate-income neighborhoods. The book addresses the history of urban development strategies, the politics of resource allocation, business and workforce development, housing, community development corporations, informal social organizations, schooling, and public security.

Author : Julie Clark,Nicholas Wise
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319723112

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Urban Renewal, Community and Participation by Julie Clark,Nicholas Wise Pdf

This edited collection investigates the human dimension of urban renewal, using a range of case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, India and North America, to explore how the conception and delivery of regeneration initiatives can strengthen or undermine local communities. Ultimately aiming to understand how urban residents can successfully influence or manage change in their own communities, contributing authors interrogate the complex relationships between policy, planning, economic development, governance systems, history and urban morphology. Alongside more conventional methods, analytical approaches include built form analysis, participant observation, photographic analysis and urban labs. Appealing to upper level undergraduate and masters' students, academics and others involved in urban renewal, the book offers a rich combination of theoretical insight and empirical analysis, contributing to literature on gentrification, the right to the city, and community participation in neighbourhood change.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Garant
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789044113938

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How to make a succesful urban development programme by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : LOC:00098595557

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Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations for 2003: Department of Housing and Urban Development by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCR:31210022969677

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Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2011: HUD; sustainability in practice; sustainability and livability initiatives; FHA FY 2011 budget; housing and transportation challenges within Native American communities; member's requests to the Subcommittee; outside witnesses written testimony by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : William Peterman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761911995

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Neighborhood Planning and Community-Based Development by William Peterman Pdf

"This book explores the promise and limits of bottom-up, grass-roots strategies of community organizing, development, and planning as blueprints for successful revitalization and maintenance of urban neighborhoods. Peterman proposes conditions that need to be met for bottom-up strategies to succeed. Successful neighborhood development depends not only on local actions, but also on the ability of local groups to marshal resources and political will at levels above that of the neighborhood itself. While he supports community-based initiatives, he argues that there are limits to what can be accomplished exclusively at the grassroots level, where most efforts fail"--Back cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1154 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015090413462

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Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2011, Part 3, 111-2 Hearings, * by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1596 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050332852

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Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations for 2004 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Pdf

Author : Frank Moulaert,Erik Swyngedouw,Flavia Martinelli,Sara Gonzalez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136953224

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Can Neighbourhoods Save the City? by Frank Moulaert,Erik Swyngedouw,Flavia Martinelli,Sara Gonzalez Pdf

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 capabilities and to improve social interaction both internally and between the local communities, the wider urban society and political world. SINGOCOM - 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 level were carried out in nine European cities, of which ten are analysed in depth and presented here. The book compares these efforts and their results, and shows how grass-roots initiatives, alternative local movements and self-organizing urban collectives are reshaping the urban scene in dynamic, creative, innovative and empowering ways. It argues that such grass-roots initiatives are vital for generating a socially cohesive urban condition that exists alongside the official state-organized forms of urban governance. The book is thus a major contribution to socio-political literature, as it seeks to overcome the duality between community-development studies and strategies, and the solidarity-based making of a diverse society based upon the recognising and maintaining of citizenship rights. It will be of particular interest to both students and researchers in the fields of urban studies, social geography and political science.

Author : Andrew Cotton
Publisher : WEDC, Loughborough University
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780906055564

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Community Initiatives in Urban Infrastructure by Andrew Cotton Pdf

This manual investigates the extent and nature of the involvement of low-income urban communities in the provision of their local infrastructure. It also provides guidance for policy-makers and professional staff of urban government, development agencies, non-government organisations, and small to medium enterprises for promoting increased involvement of communities in the procurement of neighbourhood (tertiary level) infrastructure. Cases relating to water supply, sanitation, drainage, access, paving, street and security lighting, solid waste removal, and community buildings are examined. ALSO AVAILABLE IN URDU

Author : Cathy Baldwin,Robin King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351103305

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Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development by Cathy Baldwin,Robin King Pdf

Urban communities around the world face increased stress from natural disasters linked to climate change, and other urban pressures. They need to grow rapidly stronger in order to cope, adapt and flourish. Strong social networks and social cohesion can be more important for a community’s resilience than the actual physical structures of a city. But how can urban planning and design support these critical collective social strengths? This book offers blue sky thinking from the applied social and behavioural sciences, and urban planning. It looks at case studies from 14 countries around the world – including India, the USA, South Africa, Indonesia, the UK and New Zealand – focusing on initiatives for housing, public space and transport stops, and also natural disasters such as flooding and earthquakes. Building on these insights, the authors propose a 'gold standard': a socially aware planning process and policy recommendation for those drawing up city sustainability and climate change resilience strategies, and urban developers looking to build climate-proof infrastructure and spaces. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of urban studies, resilience studies and climate change policy, as well as policymakers and practitioners working in related fields.

Author : European Commission. Directorate-General for Regional Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112960724

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Partnership with the Cities by European Commission. Directorate-General for Regional Policy Pdf