Reconsidering Localism

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-415-73562-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

Reihe: RTPI Library Series

"Localism" has been deployed in recent debates over planning law as an anodyne, grassroots way to shape communities into sustainable, human-scale neighborhoods. But "local" is a moving category, with contradictory, nuanced dimensions. Reconsidering Localism brings together new scholarship from leading academics in Europe and North America to develop a theoretically-grounded critique and definition of the new localism, and how it has come to shape urban governance and urban planning.

Moving beyond the UK, this book examines localism and similar shifts in planning policy throughout Europe, and features essays on localism and place-making, sustainability, social cohesion, and citizen participation in community institutions. It explores how debates over localism and citizen control play out at the neighborhood, institutional and city level, and has come to effect the urban landscape throughout Europe. Reconsidering Localism is a current, vital addition to planning scholarship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davoudi, Simin

Madanipour, Ali

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction Part One: The Local in Localism Chapter 2: Localism: Institutions, territories, representations Chapter 3: Paradoxes of local planning in contested societies Chapter 4: Localism agendas and post-political trends: Neighbourhood policy trajectories in Denver Chapter 5: Localism and the ‘post-social’ governmentality Part Two: Localism and Democracy Chapter 6: Civic capacity, place governance and progressive localism Chapter 7: The Promise of democracy? Civic enterprise, localism and the transformation of democratic capitalism Chapter 8: The community capacity to plan: The disproportionate requirements of the new English neighbourhood planning initiative Chapter 9: Is small really beautiful: The legitimacy of neighbourhood planning? Part Three: Localism and Sustainability Chapter 10: Avoiding collapse: An agenda for degrowth and relocalisation Chapter 11: ‘Localism’ and the environment: Effective re-scaling for sustainability transition? Chapter 12: Localism, scale and place in claims for sustainable urbanism: Moving beyond the idealist and materialist Chapter 13: Localism and rural development Chapter 14: Epilogue: Promises and pitfalls of localism

Über Autor(innen)

Simin Davoudi is Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning and Associate Director of the Institute for Sustainability at Newcastle University, UK. She is past President of the Association of the European Schools of Planning, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, expert advisor for the UK Government and EU Commission, and member of national and international research assessment panels. Her research focuses on the interface of society and ecology. Ali Madanipour is Professor of Urban Design and Director of Global Urban Research Unit (GURU) at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK. His latest books include Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe, and Urban Design, Space and Society.