Community Action and Planning : : Contexts, Drivers and Outcomes / / ed. by Nick Gallent, Daniela Ciaffi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Amdam, Jørgen,; Berra, Mustapha,; Ciaffi, Daniela,; Dandekar, Hemalata,; Daseking, Wulf,; Filion, Pierre,; Gallent, Nick,; Hamiduddin, Iqbal,; Kilpatrick, Sue,; Lewis, Sophie,; Main, Kelly,; Matthews, Peter,; Messaoudène, Maha,; Parker, Gavin,; Pinson, Daniel,; Rydin, Yvonne,; Satsangi, Madhu,; Schreuders, Hanneke,; Vilà, Gemma,; Willis, Karen,; Wolf-Powers, Laura,; van der Pennen, Ton,
• HerausgeberIn: Ciaffi, Daniela,; Gallent, Nick,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of their own lives and neighbourhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and the planning undertaken at this level, attempting to regularise it and use it as a means of reconnecting to citizens and localising democracy. This unique book analyses the contexts, drivers and outcomes of community action and planning in a selection of case studies in the global north: from emergent neighbourhood planning in England to the community-based housing movement in New York, and from active citizenship in the Dutch new towns to associative action in Marseille. It will be a valuable resource for academic researchers and for postgraduate students on social policy, planning and community development courses.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of images, figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Framing community-based planning -- Communities, community action and planning -- Communities, networks and social capital -- Time, belonging and development: a challenge for participation and research -- Contexts and drivers for community action -- From residents to citizens: the emergence of neighbourhood movements in Spain -- Community action in Australian farming and fishing communities -- Associative action in urban planning: case studies from Marseille, France -- Communities, land-ownership, housing and planning: reflections from the Scottish experience -- Planning at the community scale -- The Fourth Way of active citizenship: case studies from the Netherlands -- Small-town comprehensive planning in California: medial pathways to community-based participation -- Engaging neighbourhoods: experiences of transactive planning with communities in England -- Active communities of interest and the political process in Italy -- New York City’s community-based housing movement: achievements and prospects -- Community-based planning in Freiburg, Germany: the case of Vauban -- Scales, influence and integration -- The scaling of planning: administrative levels and neighbourhood mobilisation as obstacles to planning consensus -- Flexible local planning: linking community initiative with municipal planning in Volda, Norway -- Connecting to the citizenry? Support groups in community planning in England -- Reflections on community action and planning -- Index