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This book addresses important issues facing neighborhoods as they strive to meet the human needs of their residents. It examines neighborhood mobilization from multiple perspectives.
List of contents
Introduction: Neighborhood Action: Organization, Context, and Learning
R. Allen Hays
1. Critical Perspectives on Neighborhood Engagement and Participatory Development
Sara M. Eccleston, Jyoti Gupta, and Douglas Perkins
2. Neighborhood Networks, Collective Action, and Public Safety
R. Allen Hays
3. Formations of Participation: The Pathways of Emergent Community Land Trusts
Jakob Schneider, Claire Cahen, and Susan Saegert
4. Studying Learning in Neighborhood Level Democratic Activity: Participatory Budgeting in Chicago's 49th Ward
José Meléndez
5. Gentrification, Demobilization, and Participatory Possibilities
Jamila Michener and Diane Wong
6. Your Family, Your Neighborhood: An Intervention to Develop Social Cohesion
Daniel Brisson and Stephanie Lechuga-Peña
7. Citizens' Roles in Public Service Delivery: Reconceptualizing Coproduction
Kelechi Uzochukwu
8. Escape from Violence and Changes in Neighborhood Informal Social Control: Understanding Causes and Consequences of Residential Mobility
Eileen Ahlin and Maria João Lobo Antunes
About the author
Edited by R. Allen Hays - Contributions by Eileen Ahlin; Maria João Lobo Antunes; Daniel Brisson; Claire Cahen; Sara M. Eccleston; Jyoti Gupta; R. Allen Hays; Stephanie Lechuga-Peña; José Meléndez; Jamila Michener; Douglas Perkins; Susan Saegert; Jakob Sc
Summary
This book addresses important issues facing neighborhoods as they strive to meet the human needs of their residents. It examines neighborhood mobilization from multiple perspectives.
