Revitalising deprived urban neighbourhoods
Subtitle: an assisted self-help approach
By: Colin C. Williams, Jan Windebank.
Contributors: Windebank, J.
Series: Urban and regional planning and development
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Urban renewal.; Urban renewal -- Citizen participation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; title: PART I: RATIONALES FOR A SELF-HELP APPROACH; title: 2. The Employment Problem; title: 3. The Persistence of Self-Help; title: 4. Policy Options and their Implications; title: PART II: SELF-HELP IN DEPRIVED URBAN NEIGHBOURHOODS; title: 5. Examining Self-Help Activity; title: 6. The Extent and Character of Self-Help; title: 7. Providing for Ourselves: Self-Provisioning; title: 8. Helping Each Other Out: Unpaid Community Work; title: 9. Spreading the Cash Around: Paid Informal Work; title: 10. Barriers to Participation in Self-Help; title: PART III: DEVELOPING POLICIES TO REVITALISE; title: DEPRIVED URBAN NEIGHBOURHOODS; title: 11. From Full-Employment to Full-Engagement; title: 12. Bottom-Up Initiatives; title: 13. Top-Down Initiatives; title: 14. Conclusions.