Author: Minneapolis (Minn.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minneapolis (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Minneapolis
Author: Minneapolis (Minn.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minneapolis (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Project for Community-based Open Space Renewal in the Jefferson-Chalmers Neighborhood : a Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment ... for the Degree of Master of Landscape Architecture ...
Author: The Cambridge Handbook of Community Empowerment
Author: Brian D. ChristensPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009191349
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 811
Book Description
Power and empowerment are critical topics for social change. This handbook maps out ways that people can collectively engage with, influence, and change systems that affect their lives, particularly the systems that maintain inequality and oppression. It includes in-depth examinations of a variety of approaches to building and exercising community power in local organizations, institutions, and settings. Each chapter examines a particular approach, critically engaging with contemporary research on how and when collective action can be most effective at producing change within communities and societal systems. By examining a range of approaches in diverse contexts, this book provides new insights for scholars, practitioners, and engaged resident-leaders aiming to be more precise, strategic, and innovative in their efforts to build and sustain community power. It is the ideal resource for those working with community groups to build more just and equitable systems.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banking law
Languages : en
Pages : 1582
Book Description
State of the City
Author: The Project for Community-based Open Space Renewal in the Jefferson-Chalmers Neighborhood
Author: The Just City
Author: Susan S. FainsteinPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801460484
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, political, economic, and financial resources to favor economic growth at the expense of wider social benefits. Susan Fainstein's concept of the "just city" encourages planners and policymakers to embrace a different approach to urban development. Her objective is to combine progressive city planners' earlier focus on equity and material well-being with considerations of diversity and participation so as to foster a better quality of urban life within the context of a global capitalist political economy. Fainstein applies theoretical concepts about justice developed by contemporary philosophers to the concrete problems faced by urban planners and policymakers and argues that, despite structural obstacles, meaningful reform can be achieved at the local level. In the first half of The Just City, Fainstein draws on the work of John Rawls, Martha Nussbaum, Iris Marion Young, Nancy Fraser, and others to develop an approach to justice relevant to twenty-first-century cities, one that incorporates three central concepts: diversity, democracy, and equity. In the book's second half, Fainstein tests her ideas through case studies of New York, London, and Amsterdam by evaluating their postwar programs for housing and development in relation to the three norms. She concludes by identifying a set of specific criteria for urban planners and policymakers to consider when developing programs to assure greater justice in both the process of their formulation and their effects.
Annual Report
Author: Minneapolis Community Development AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing authorities
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Report
Author: Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods
Author: William Dennis KeatingPublisher:
ISBN:
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.