Social Innovations in the Urban Context / edited by Taco Brandsen, Sandro Cattacin, Adalbert Evers, Annette Zimmer.
Brandsen, Taco, editor.; Cattacin, Sandro, editor.; Evers, Adalbert, editor.; Zimmer, Annette, editor.
2016
HM401-1281
Available Online

Linked e-resources

Linked Resource Online Access
Concurrent users Unlimited
Authorized users Authorized users
Document Delivery Supplied Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks

Details

Title Social Innovations in the Urban Context / edited by Taco Brandsen, Sandro Cattacin, Adalbert Evers, Annette Zimmer.
ISBN 9783319215518
3319215515
3319215507
9783319215501
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21551-8
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-21551-8 doi
Call Number HM401-1281
Dewey Decimal Classification 301
Summary This book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches are needed to tackle the severe and wicked problems with which contemporary societies are struggling. Especially in times of economic crisis, social innovation is regarded as one of the crucial elements needed to move forward. Our knowledge of its dynamics has significantly progressed, thanks to an abundance of studies on social innovation both general and sector-specific. However, despite the valuable research conducted over the past years, the systematic analysis of social innovation is still contested and incomplete. The questions asked in the book are the following: 1. What is the nature of social innovations? 2. What patterns can be identified in social innovations emerging at the local level? 3. How is the emergence and spread of social innovations related to urban governance? More precisely, which conditions and arrangements facilitate and hinders social innovation? We explore these questions using different types of data and methods, and studying different contexts. In particular, we focus on innovations that aim at solving problems of the young unemployed, single parents and migrants. The analysis is based on original research carried out in the period 2010-2014 in the framework of the European project WILCO.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Digital File Characteristics text file PDF
Added Author Brandsen, Taco, editor.
Cattacin, Sandro, editor.
Evers, Adalbert, editor.
Zimmer, Annette, editor.
Series Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies, An International Multidisciplinary Series.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783319215501
Linked Resources Online Access
Record Appears in Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
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.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export