Resilience in the Post-Welfare Inner City : : Voluntary Sector Geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney /

Resilience in the Post-Welfare Inner City : : Voluntary Sector Geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney / / Geoffrey DeVerteuil.

'Resilience' has become one of the first fully fledged academic and political buzzwords of the 21st century. Within this context, Geoffrey DeVerteuil proposes a more critically engaged and conceptually robust version, applying it to the conspicuous but now residual clusters of inner-city v...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015
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DeVerteuil, Geoffrey,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.) :; 44 Black and White
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introducing resilience in the post-welfare inner city: conceptual and methodological considerations
  • Introduction
  • Resilience and residualism
  • The voluntary sector within the post-welfare city
  • Methodological approaches
  • Case studies: spatial and social resilience in London, Los Angeles and Sydney
  • National and local settlements: London, UK; Los Angeles, US; Sydney, Australia
  • Established gentrified place-types
  • Mixed place-types
  • Pioneer gentrified place-types
  • Immigrant enclaves
  • Comparative analysis and summary
  • Conclusions, critical resilience, commons and austerity
  • The critical resilience of the residuals
  • Here, now: recasting service hubs in an age of austerity
  • References
  • Index

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