Regenerating deprived urban areas : a cross national analysis of area-based initiatives.
This book compares the impacts of ABIs in two deprived urban areas in England and Germany on organisations and development actors at the neighbourhood level. It applies a mixed method approach to help the reader with a wider spectrum of illustrations and is aimed at those studying and working in the...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Bristol : Policy Press, 2013. |
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Table of Contents:
- Regenerating deprived urban areas; Contents; List of figures, tables, boxes and appendices; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. New Localism(s) in Europe: restructuring local state spaces and public-service delivery in England and Germany; Features of the New Localism(s); Beyond the market and the local state: public-service delivery reforms in England; Coping with the local budget crises: reforming the local state administration in Germany; 3. National urban policies for deprived urban areas: the birth of Area-Based Initiatives.
- Between central-government control and outsourcing: urban policies and development partnerships in EnglandHalting the downward spiral: urban policies and the birth of Area-Based Initiatives in Germany; Comparing Area-Based Initiatives: cross-national observations; 4. Exploring the impacts of Area-Based Initiatives through a neo-institutionalist perspective; The Institutional Capacity Building Framework: evaluating shared knowledge, new political spaces and inter-organisational relations; 5. Lost in transformation: urban governance practices and the New Deal for Communities in Bristol.
- Spending the New Deal for Communities jackpot in Bristol Barton HillBetween mainstreaming and the realities of institutionalisation: winding down the New Deal for Communities experiments; New Deal for Communities in Bristol: a flash in the pan; 6. Local-government experiments to cope with structural change: the Social City Programme in Duisburg; The Social City Programme in Duisburg North: continuing local policies with central-government funding; Beliefs and practices of anchoring and mainstreaming: the fading legacy of the Social City Programme in Duisburg.
- The Social City Programme in Duisburg: a fading legacy7. The crystallisation of New Localism(s) in Bristol and Duisburg: a cross-case comparison; The transformation of local state spaces; Area-Based Initiatives in comparison: same objectives in different regulatory frameworks; The transformation of local institutional capacities; Institutional change: processes of (de)institutionalisation; 8. The neo-institutional study of New Localism(s) as an analytical window for comparative urbanism: concluding reflections.
- The value of neo-institutional frameworks for the study of contrasting pressures for institutional changeComparing New Localism(s) across Europe; Methodological reflections for implementation of evaluation research; Prospects for area-based policies in Europe in times of financial austerity; Appendix I: Research design; Appendix II:Sociogram depicting inter-organisational trust among the New Deal for Communities partnership (n = 21); Appendix III:Sociogram depicting inter-organisational trust among the Social City Programme partnership (n = 25).