Author: Mara Suzanne SidneyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Citizen Participation and the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program
Author: Mara Suzanne SidneyThe Impact of the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program on Neighborhood Organizations
Author: Edward Glenn GoetzPublisher:
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Category : Community development, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Citizen Participation
Author: Mary Christine RockPublisher:
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Category : Political participation
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Describes city-funded, community involvement programs, including the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program, and evaluates their effectiveness.
Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods
Author: William Dennis KeatingPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Since the 1950s and the advance of urban renewal, local governments and urban policy have focused heavily on the central business district. However, such development has all but ignored the inner-city neighborhoods that continue to struggle in the shadows of high-rise America. This analysis of urban neighborhoods in the United States from 1960 to 1995 presents fifteen essays by scholars of urban planning and development. Together they show how urban neighborhoods can and must be preserved as economic, cultural, and political centers.
Institutionalizing Organized Citizen Participation
Author: Karen M. HultPublisher:
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Category : Citizens' associations
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Community Organizing and the State
Author: Deborah Grace MartinPublisher:
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Category : Community development, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Community Plans for City Decisions
Author: Citizens League (Minneapolis, Minn.). Committee on Community RepresentationPublisher:
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Category : Community organization
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Building Community by Building Partnerships
Author: Neighborhood Revitalization Program (Minneapolis, Minn.)Publisher:
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Category : Community development, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance
Author: Hoi L. KongPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487542992
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The inaction of nation states and international bodies has posed significant risks to the environment. By contrast, cities are sites of action and innovation. In Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance, contributors researching in the areas of law, urban planning, geography, and philosophy identify approaches for tackling many of the most challenging environmental problems facing cities today. Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance facilitates two strands of dialogue about climate change. First, it integrates legal perspectives into policy debates about urban sustainability and governance, from which law has typically stood apart. Second, it brings case studies from Quebec into a rare conversation with examples drawn from elsewhere in Canada. The collection proposes humane and inclusive processes for arriving at effective policy outcomes. Some chapters examine governance mechanisms that reconcile clashes of incommensurable values and resolve conflicts about collective interests. Other chapters provide platforms for social movements that have faced obstacles to communicating to a broad public. The collection’s proposals respond to drastic changes in urban environments. Some changes are imminent. Others are upon us already. All threaten the present and future well-being of urban communities.
Democracy at Risk
Author: Stephen MacedoPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815797869
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Voter turnout was unusually high in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. At first glance, that level of participation—largely spurred by war in Iraq and a burgeoning culture war at home—might look like vindication of democracy. If the recent past is any indication, however, too many Americans will soon return to apathy and inactivity. Clearly, all is not well in our civic life. Citizens are participating in public affairs too infrequently, too unequally, and in too few venues to develop and sustain a robust democracy. This important new book explores the problem of America's decreasing involvement in its own affairs. D emocracy at Risk reveals the dangers of civic disengagement for the future of representative democracy. The authors, all eminent scholars, undertake three main tasks: documenting recent trends in civic engagement, exploring the influence that the design of political institutions and public policies have had on those trends, and recommending steps that will increase the amount and quality of civic engagement in America. The authors focus their attention on three key areas: the electoral process, including elections and the way people get involved; the impact of location, including demographic shifts and changing development patterns; and the critical role of nonprofit organizations and voluntary associations, including the philanthropy that help keep them going. This important project, initially sponsored by the American Political Science Association, tests the proposition that social science has useful insights on the state of our democratic life. Most importantly, it charts a course for reinvigorating civic participation in the world's oldest democracy. The authors: Stephen Macedo (Princeton University), Yvette Alex-Assensoh (Indiana University), Jeffrey M. Berry (Tufts), Michael Brintnall (American Political Science Association), David E. Campbell (Notre Dame), Luis Ricardo Fraga (Stanford), Archon Fung (Harvard), William