A city of one's own
Subtitle: blurring the boundaries between private and public
By: by Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jacques Carré and Romain Garbaye.
Contributors: Carré, Jacques.; Garbaye, Romain.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780754675020
Subjects: Citizens' associations -- United States; Citizens' associations -- Great Britain; Neighborhood government -- United States; Neighborhood government -- Great Britain; Community organization -- United States; Community organization -- Great Britain; Public-private sector cooperation -- United States; Public-private sector cooperation -- Great Britain; Community power -- United States; Community power -- Great Britain; Political participation -- United States; Political participation -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: "Private" and "public" in the extension of Georgian London's West End / Jacques Carré; title: Housing; title: Making an inclusive urbanism: New York City's World Trade Memorial / Robert A. Beauregard; title: The privatization of council-housing in Britain: the strange death of public sector housing? / David Fée; title: The governance of new communities in Britain, France and North America, 1815-2004: the quest for the public interest? / Stéphane Sadoux, Frédéric Cantaroglou and Audrey Gloor; title: Security; title: Gated communities: generic patterns in suburban landscapes? / Renaud Le Goix; title: From self-defence to citizenry involvement participation in law-and-order enforcement in the United States: private spheres and public space / Didier Combeau; title: The future of prison privatization in the United States / Franck Vindevogel; title: Health; title: AIDS prevention by non-governmental organizations: inside the American and French responses / Laura Hobson Faure, Carla Dillard Smith, Gloria Lockett and Benjamin P. Bowser; title: Education; title: Education management organizations and for-profit education, an overview, and a case-study: Philadelphia / Malie Montagutelli; title: "We pay the rates" á! Catholic voluntary schools and Scottish school boards (1872-1918) / Géraldine Vaughan; title: Citizenship; title: "To serve and to elect", the women's local government society, Britain 1888-1914 / Myriam Boussahba-Bravard; title: The "third way" and the governance of the social in Britain / Jérôme Tournadre-Plancq; title: Conclusion: Jane Jacobs revisitedá? / Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jacques Carré and Romain Garbaye; title: Index.