Reconsidering Localism (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Davoudi, Simin; Madanipour, Ali

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reconsidering Localism brings together new scholarship from leading academics in Europe and North America to develop a theoretically-grounded critique and definition of the new localism, and how it has come to shape urban governance and urban planning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317818144
• Artikelnr.: 42118417

Autorenporträt

Simin Davoudi is Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning and Associate Director of the Institute for Sustainability at Newcastle University, UK. She is past President of the Association of the European Schools of Planning, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, expert advisor for the UK Government and EU Commission, and member of national and international research assessment panels. Her research focuses on the interface of society and ecology. Ali Madanipour is Professor of Urban Design and Director of Global Urban Research Unit (GURU) at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK. His latest books include Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe, and Urban Design, Space and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction Part One: The Local in Localism Chapter 2:
Localism: Institutions, territories, representations Chapter 3: Paradoxes
of local planning in contested societies Chapter 4: Localism agendas and
post-political trends: Neighbourhood policy trajectories in Denver Chapter
5: Localism and the 'post-social' governmentality Part Two: Localism and
Democracy Chapter 6: Civic capacity, place governance and progressive
localism Chapter 7: The Promise of democracy? Civic enterprise, localism
and the transformation of democratic capitalism Chapter 8: The community
capacity to plan: The disproportionate requirements of the new English
neighbourhood planning initiative Chapter 9: Is small really beautiful: The
legitimacy of neighbourhood planning? Part Three: Localism and
Sustainability Chapter 10: Avoiding collapse: An agenda for degrowth and
relocalisation Chapter 11: 'Localism' and the environment: Effective
re-scaling for sustainability transition? Chapter 12: Localism, scale and
place in claims for sustainable urbanism: Moving beyond the idealist and
materialist Chapter 13: Localism and rural development Chapter 14:
Epilogue: Promises and pitfalls of localism