Resilience in the post-welfare inner city : voluntary sector geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney /

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Moving beyond theoretical notions of 'resilience' this is the first book to offer a conceptual and empirical approach to exploring and comparing the process of resilience across service 'hubs' in three complex but different global inner-city regions: London, Los Angeles and Sydne...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: DeVerteuil, Geoffrey (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Inner cities > Case studies.
Nonprofit organizations > Case studies.
Gentrification > Case studies.
Associations sans but lucratif > Études de cas.
Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme) > Études de cas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Volunteer Work.
Nonprofit organizations
Gentrification
Inner cities
Electronic books.
Case studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Resilience and residualism
  • 3. The voluntary sector within the post-welfare city
  • 4. Methodological approaches
  • 5. National and local settlements: London, UK; Los Angeles, US; Sydney, Australia
  • 6. Established gentryfied place-types
  • 7. Mixed place-types
  • 8. Pioneer gentrified place-types
  • 9. Immigrant enclaves
  • 10. Comparative analysis and summary
  • 11. The critical resilience of the residuals
  • 12. Here, now: recasting service hubs in an age of austerity.

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