Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England

ISBN-13: 9780367632038 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Patsy Healey

Opis

This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey's personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a stake in the wider governance relations while maintaining their own focus and ways of working.

Spis treści

1. Civil society caring for place futures, 2. Caring for place: three initiatives in an English rural area, 3. Placing Wooler and Glendale: where and what is 'here'?, 4. Experiencing community - asserting community, 5. Engaging with the agency world, 6. Power relations: navigating in a dynamic forcefield, 7. Framing the future: knowledge and narrative in Wooler and Glendale, 8. Creating public value through civil society activism, 9. Can we shape our future?: The transformative potential of civil society initiative, 10. Epilogue: our locality in lockdown