Resilience in the post-welfare inner city : voluntary sector geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney / [electronic resource]
DeVerteuil, Geoffrey,author.
Moving beyond theoretical notions of 'resilience', this is the first book to offer a conceptual and empirical approach to exploring and comparing the process of resilience across service 'hubs' in three complex but different global inner-city regions: London, Los Angeles and Sydney.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Mar 2022).
1. Introduction -- 2. Resilience and residualism -- 3. The voluntary sector within the post-welfare city -- 4. Methodological approaches -- 5. National and local settlements: London, UK; Los Angeles, US; Sydney, Australia -- 6. Established gentryfied place-types -- 7. Mixed place-types -- 8. Pioneer gentrified place-types -- 9. Immigrant enclaves -- 10. Comparative analysis and summary -- 11. The critical resilience of the residuals -- 12. Here, now: recasting service hubs in an age of austerity.
Moving beyond theoretical notions of 'resilience', this is the first book to offer a conceptual and empirical approach to exploring and comparing the process of resilience across service 'hubs' in three complex but different global inner-city regions: London, Los Angeles and Sydney.
Inner cities
Gentrification
Nonprofit organizations