The future of community : reports of a death greatly exaggerated / edited by Dave Clements ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clements, Dave.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communities.

Communities--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of short, punchy essays arguing that communities are alive and thriving, but not under government control.

Contents:

Introduction : who needs community anyway? / Austin Williams

Faking civil society / Dave Clements

A green unpleasant land / Alastair Donald

Public space : designing-in community / Richard Williams

New new urbanism / Austin Williams

Density versus sprawl / Karl Sharro

Salvation by brick? : the life and death of British communities / Penny Lewis

Strictly personal : the working class confined to community / Andrew Calcutt

Virtual communities versus political realities / Martyn Perks

Minorities, multiculturalism and the metropolitan experience / Neil Davenport

From little Italy to big America / Elisabetta Gasparoni-Abraham

Rio on Galway : immigration and Ireland / Suzy Dean

Communities on the couch / Martin Earnshaw

Youthful misbehaviour or adult traumas? / Stuart Waiton

Parish pump politics / Dave Clements

Conclusion : a death greatly exaggerated / Alastair Donald.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612006074

9781849644082

184964408X

9781282006072

128200607X

9781435691001

1435691008

OCLC:

298540997