Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City : Somerville, MA /

Overcoming a past of deteriorating homes, empty storefronts, and corrupt city administrations, Somerville, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, proudly defines itself as a longtime immigrant city, a historically blue collar town, and a hip new urban center with a progressive city government. In th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ostrander, Susan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2013
Subjects:
Community development > Massachusetts > Somerville.
Civic improvement > Massachusetts > Somerville.
City planning > Massachusetts > Somerville > Citizen participation.
Political participation > Massachusetts > Somerville.
Citizenship > Massachusetts > Somerville.
City planning > Citizen participation.
Participation politique > Massachusetts > Somerville.
Urbanisme participatif.
Villes > Aménagement et assainissement > Massachusetts > Somerville.
Développement communautaire > Massachusetts > Somerville.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Citizenship
City planning > Citizen participation
Civic improvement
Community development
Political participation
Politics and government
Somerville (Mass.) > Politics and government.
Massachusetts > Somerville
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Overview of history, demographics, and politics
  • Major re-development, community involvement, and shared governance
  • Old and new immigrant experiences, today and yesterday
  • Immigrant civic and political engagement
  • Gentrification, resident displacement, and a common vision for the city's future
  • Extending social citizenship, remaking city governance.

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