Neighborhood Politics / / Matthew A. Crenson.
What makes an urban neighborhood tick? Why do some of a city's poorest neighborhoods have cleaner streets and less vandalism than many of its more affluent areas? The public services that make certain neighborhoods stand out are often provided by the local residents themselves -- but what makes...
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Crenson, Matthew A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Neighborhood Politics / Matthew A. Crenson. Reprint 2014 Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©1983 1 online resource (328 p.) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. The Neighborhood as a Polity -- 2. Local Political Climates -- 3. Neighborhood Identity -- 4. Informal Governance -- 5. Community Organizations -- 6. Foreign Entanglements -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star What makes an urban neighborhood tick? Why do some of a city's poorest neighborhoods have cleaner streets and less vandalism than many of its more affluent areas? The public services that make certain neighborhoods stand out are often provided by the local residents themselves -- but what makes them take action? The setting for Matthew Crenson's book is Baltimore. In this surprising, powerful work, he finds that such neighborhood action does not arise from a strong sense of neighborliness or community feeling. Instead, it is precisely when neighbors dislike one another that some features of informal self-organization emerge. Residents' efforts to maintain public order, health, and safety frequently spring from social chaos and discord rather than from homogeneity. In fact, Crenson discovers that in many cases community polities arise not from the cohesiveness of close-knit "urban villages" but from the social diversity, inequality, and conflict that are associated with urbanism itself. In an era when the inability of government institutions to solve the difficulties of city living is starkly apparent, understanding unofficial neighborhood government is critically important, and it can also clarify the foundations of political order itself Crenson's achievement is to redefine neighborhood problem -- solving as the true "grass roots" urban politics, and in doing so he reveals why Baltimore is one of the few big cities that really work in America today. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) Neighborhood government. Political science. Politieke aspecten. Politik. Sociaal-economische ontwikkeling. Stadswijken. Baltimore (Md.) -- Politics and government. Neighborhood government -- Maryland -- Baltimore. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package 9783110353488 ZDB-23-HCO Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Law & Political Science eBook Package 9783110353495 ZDB-23-HLP Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 print 9780674188105 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674188112 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674188112 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674188112.jpg |
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