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Conflict, improvisation, governance : street level practices for urban democracy / David Laws and John Forester ; with the support of Platform31, The Hague.
Loaned to Another Library JS5963.A2 L38 2015
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laws, David, author.
- Forester, John, 1948- author.
- Series:
- RTPI library series
- The RTPI library series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Municipal government--Netherlands--Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.
- Municipal government.
- Community organization--Netherlands--Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.
- Community organization.
- Democracy--Netherlands--Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.
- Democracy.
- Public administration--Netherlands--Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.
- Public administration.
- Amsterdam Metropolitan Area--Politics and government.
- Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.
- Netherlands--Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 371 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
- Summary:
- Conflict, Improvisation, Governance presents a carefully crafted and edited collection of first-hand accounts of diverse public sector and non-profit urban practitioners facing the practical challenges of "doing democracy" in the global/local context of the interconnected major European city of Amsterdam and its region. The book examines street level democratic processes through the experiences of planning and city governance practitioners in community development, youth work, public service delivery, urban public administration, immigration and multi-cultural social policy. These profiles and case studies show widely shared challenges in global and local urban environments, and new, "bottom-up," democratic and improvisational strategies that community members and public officials alike can use to make more inclusive, democratic cities. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- A bias for practice : stories of improvisation in governance
- Challenges and opportunities of street level democratization, improvisation and conflict
- Conflict as a stage for improvisation in governance
- Developing vision to inform demolition and renovation in Vlardingen's housing association : a profile of Ellen Hiep
- From "oh my God, this is really great. Now I know what to do!" to launching small initiatives, going step by step : a profile of Simen van der Goot
- "And no one, no one, wants to be denied" : community rebuilding after disaster : a profile of Joop Hofman
- The significance of building relationships in neighbourhood work : a profile of Willem Giezeman
- Community building in the face of distrust : a profile of Tonie Boxman
- The evolution of the Amsterdam think tanks : a profile of Mercedes Zandwijken
- Social imagination and community development : a profile of Frans Geraedts
- On radicalization and social cohesion : the city of Amsterdam's responses to the murder of Theo van Gogh seen through the eyes of Marian Visser and Joris Rijbroek
- Challenges of immigration, radicalization, and integration : a profile of Halime el Madkouri
- On conflict, community and governance : a profile of Martien Kuitenbrouwer
- Managing multiple agency collaboration and "multi-problem families" in Amsterdam : a profile of Erik Gerritsen
- There's always a way out, and finding it together : a profile of Henri Kardaun
- Learning about how we might work better than we do : a profile of Karin van Doorn
- Making participation work : seeing new angles and other possibilities : a profile of Douwe Wielenga.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138025684
- 1138025682
- 9781138025677
- 1138025674
- OCLC:
- 864094741
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