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Networked Urbanism: Social Capital in the City

Contributor(s): Blokland, Talja (Author), Savage, Mike (Editor)

ISBN: 9780754672012

Publisher: Routledge

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Pub Date: July 10, 2008

Dewey: 331.4133

LCCN: 2007048812

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index, Maps

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.63" H x 9.21" L x 6.14" W ( 1.18 lbs) 256 pages

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Description: Despite considerable interest in social capital amongst urban policy makers and academics alike, there is currently little direct focus on its urban dimensions. In this volume leading urban researchers from the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Australia, Italy and France explore the nature of social networks and the significance of voluntary associations for contemporary urban life.

Review Quotes: 'This collection explores some of the limits, and possibilities, of social capital perspectives for understanding entrenched urban inequalities and, more generally, the changing sociospatial landscapes of contemporary urbanism. An invaluable resource for anyone concerned with the debate on social capital, within or beyond cities.' Neil Brenner, New York University, USA '...Networked Urbanism provides a number of useful insights into the social and spatial processes behind the formation and working of social capital in relation to the contemporary city, revealing complexities that suggest there is plenty of room for the social capital debated to run for a good while yet.' European Spatial Research and Policy

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