Community Action and Planning: Contexts, Drivers and Outcomes

ISBN 10: 1447315170 / ISBN 13: 9781447315179

Published by Policy Press, 2016

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pp. 304.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Community Action and Planning: Contexts, Drivers and Outcomes
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447315170
• ISBN 13: 9781447315179
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Nick Gallent is Professor of Housing and Planning at University College London. His research focuses on planning systems and local practice, as they relate to housing delivery. He has a particular interest in rural communities and affordable housing.

Daniela Ciaffi is Professor of Urban Sociology in the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Palermo. She has published widely in the fields of strategic and inclusive planning, participative planning and urban sociology.