Social innovations in the urban context. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Taco Brandsen, Sandro Cattacin, Adalbert Evers, Annette Zimmer.
• Editors: Brandsen, Taco; Cattacin, Sandro; Evers, Adalbert; Zimmer, Annette
• Contents: Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Social Innovation: A Sympathetic and Critical Interpretation -- Part II: Urban contexts for local innovations -- Chapter 3: "Everybody on Board? Opportunity Structures for Social Innovations in Münster" -- Chapter 4: Inertia, Clearings, and Innovations in Malmö -- Chapter 5: Birmingham, Priority to Economics, Social Innovation at the Margins -- Chapter 6: Social Policies and Governance in Geneva: What about Social Innovation? -- Chapter 7: Milan, a City Lost in the Transition from the Growth Machine Paradigm Towards a Social Innovation Approach -- Chapter 8: Poor but Sexy? Berlin as a Context for Social Innovation -- Part III: Local Social Innovations -- Chapter 9: Social Innovations as Messages: Democratic Experimentation in Local Welfare Systems -- Chapter 10: Warsaw: Paving new ways for participation of mothers, fathers and children in local public and social life -- The MaMa Foundation -- Chapter 11: Zagreb: Parents in Action -- Innovative ways of support and policies for children, women and families.-Chapter 12: Amsterdam: Neighbourhood Stores for Education, Research, and Talent Development -- the BOOT project -- Chapter 13: Lille: Co-production of housing in a major urban renewal district -- Chapter 14: Pamplona: Neighbourhood Children services -- a grassroots and local council initiative -- Chapter 15: Berlin: Kreuzberg acts -- entrepreneurship in the district -- Chapter 16: Milan: "We help you to help yourself". The project of the Fondazione Welfare Ambrosiano -- Chapter 17: Stockholm: Innovative ways of supporting children of single (lone) mothers -- Chapter 18: NijmEGEN: Work corporations -- for the unemployed, by the unemployed -- Chapter 19: Birmingham: The Youth Employment and Enterprise Rehearsal project -- Chapter 20: Birmingham: A "locality approach" to combating worklessness -- Chapter 21: Münster: How Prevention Visits Improve Local Child Protection -- Chapter 22: BARCELONA: A citizeńs agreement for an inclusive CITY -- Chapter 23: Bern: Integration guidelines -- Part IV: Conclusions -- Chapter 24: The Implicit Normative Assumptions of Social Innovation Research: Embracing the Dark Side -- Chapter 25: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Social Innovation.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages), 2 illustrations in color
• Subjects: 301; Social change -- Europe; Sociology, Urban -- Europe; Social policy; Humanities; Social classes; Social change; Social policy; Sociology, Urban; Sozialinnovation; Stadt; Europe; Europa; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319215518; 3319215515
• Related ISBNs: 3319215507; 9783319215501
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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