Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions. Moreover, unequal power relations tend to heighten levels of conflict. In this context of contention, figuring out ways to accommodate others and reach solutions that are agreeable to all is a perennial challenge for activists, politicians, planners, and policymakers. John Forester is one of America's eminent scholars of progressive planning and dispute resolution in the policy arena, and in Dealing with Differences he focuses on a series of 'hard cases'--conflicts that appeared to be insoluble yet which were resolved in...
Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions. Moreover, unequal power relations tend to heighten levels of conflict. In this context ...
Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions. Moreover, unequal power relations tend to heighten levels of conflict. In this context of contention, figuring out ways to accommodate others and reach solutions that are agreeable to all is a perennial challenge for activists, politicians, planners, and policymakers. John Forester is one of America's eminent scholars of progressive planning and dispute resolution in the policy arena, and in Dealing with Differences he focuses on a series of 'hard cases'--conflicts that appeared to be insoluble yet which were resolved in...
Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions. Moreover, unequal power relations tend to heighten levels of conflict. In this context ...
Conflict, Improvisation, Governance presents a carefully crafted and edited collection of first hand accounts of diverse public sector and non-profit urban practitioners facing the practical challenges of "doing democracy" in the global/local context of the interconnected major European city of Amsterdam and its region. The book examines street level democratic processes through the experiences of planning and city governance practitioners in community development, youth work, public service delivery, urban public administration, immigration and multi-cultural social policy. These...
Conflict, Improvisation, Governance presents a carefully crafted and edited collection of first hand accounts of diverse public sector and...
Conflict, Improvisation, Governance presents a carefully crafted and edited collection of first hand accounts of diverse public sector and non-profit urban practitioners facing the practical challenges of "doing democracy" in the global/local context of the interconnected major European city of Amsterdam and its region. The book examines street level democratic processes through the experiences of planning and city governance practitioners in community development, youth work, public service delivery, urban public administration, immigration and multi-cultural social policy. These...
Conflict, Improvisation, Governance presents a carefully crafted and edited collection of first hand accounts of diverse public sector and...
"Rebuilding Community after Katrina "chronicles the innovative and ambitious partnership between Cornell University s City and Regional Planning department and ACORN Housing, an affiliate of what was the nation s largest low-income community organization. These unlikely allies came together to begin to rebuild devastated neighborhoods in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. " "
The editors and contributors to this volume allow participants voices to show how this partnership integrated careful, technical analysis with aggressive community outreach and organizing. With essays by...
"Rebuilding Community after Katrina "chronicles the innovative and ambitious partnership between Cornell University s City and Regional Planning de...
"Rebuilding Community after Katrina "chronicles the innovative and ambitious partnership between Cornell University s City and Regional Planning department and ACORN Housing, an affiliate of what was the nation s largest low-income community organization. These unlikely allies came together to begin to rebuild devastated neighborhoods in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. " "
The editors and contributors to this volume allow participants voices to show how this partnership integrated careful, technical analysis with aggressive community outreach and organizing. With essays by...
"Rebuilding Community after Katrina "chronicles the innovative and ambitious partnership between Cornell University s City and Regional Planning de...
