Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods (Studies in Government and Public Policy) - Hardcover

W.Dennis Keating (editor)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0700607897 ISBN 13: 9780700607891

Publisher: University Press of Kansas, 1996

Synopsis

This analysis of urban neighbourhoods in the United States from 1960 to 1995 presents 15 original essays by scholars of urban planning and development. Together they show how urban neighbourhoods can and must be preserved as economic, cultural and political centres.

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Review

"A comprehensive, cohesive, and up-to-date assessment of the prospects for community-led initiatives to bring about healthier, progressive cities. While acknowledging that there are broad political and economic forces that buffet the city and that are outside residents' immediate control, the contributors identify ways in which even low-income neighborhoods can take things, productively, into their own hands. The collection strikes the right balance between visionary optimism and hard-headed realism."--Jeffrey R. Henig, author of Neighborhood Mobilization: Redevelopment and Response "This volume goes well beyond the collection of 'success stories' that make up much of the literature on urban neighborhoods. It brings together the leading scholars on urban neighborhoods to present a compelling argument that, as in the past, neighborhoods substantially define the civic life of cities--and that policies that would help urban residents must aim to revitalize the fundamental unit of civic culture, the neighborhood."--Dennis Judd, coauthor of City Politics: Private Power and Public Policy "An interesting and readable mix of discussions of general neighborhood issues and profiles of particular cities, neighborhoods, and neighborhood movement leaders."--John C. Thomas, author of Between Citizen and City: Neighborhood Organizations and Urban Politics

-A comprehensive, cohesive, and up-to-date assessment of the prospects for community-led initiatives to bring about healthier, progressive cities. While acknowledging that there are broad political and economic forces that buffet the city and that are outside residents' immediate control, the contributors identify ways in which even low-income neighborhoods can take things, productively, into their own hands. The collection strikes the right balance between visionary optimism and hard-headed realism.---Jeffrey R. Henig, author of Neighborhood Mobilization: Redevelopment and Response -This volume goes well beyond the collection of 'success stories' that make up much of the literature on urban neighborhoods. It brings together the leading scholars on urban neighborhoods to present a compelling argument that, as in the past, neighborhoods substantially define the civic life of cities--and that policies that would help urban residents must aim to revitalize the fundamental unit of civic culture, the neighborhood.---Dennis Judd, coauthor of City Politics: Private Power and Public Policy -An interesting and readable mix of discussions of general neighborhood issues and profiles of particular cities, neighborhoods, and neighborhood movement leaders.---John C. Thomas, author of Between Citizen and City: Neighborhood Organizations and Urban Politics

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0700607897
• ISBN 13: 9780700607891
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288