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This groundbreaking new volume on social sustainability offers both
critique and creative solutions. It challenges the conventional
wisdoms of social sustainability and presents practical examples of
projects that will help practitioners to think carefully and
innovatively about the situations they are addressing. The book
consists of original contributions from academics working in the
fields of urban planning, housing, regeneration, transport and
international sustainable development. Drawing on case study
research gathered in the UK, Europe and Africa, it adopts an
original, interdisciplinary approach to both theory and practice,
illustrating the challenges and opportunities facing policy-makers
and practitioners attempting to develop, manage and maintain
sustainable communities. The authors argue that the dominant
approach of 'how to do' small scale social sustainability fails to
locate it within broader social processes. Ignoring the context not
only sustains, but also actively reproduces wider inequalities. The
book presents a new, more coherent and more complete approach to
issues of social sustainability in urban areas. The book approaches
current urban policy discourses in three different ways,
represented by three sections: firstly focusing on small places
within the urban fabric, secondly addressing the whole urban fabric
by examining whether changing urban living and working patterns.
The third section explores some of the ways that funding can be
secured to achieve the aims of social sustainability and the social
planning associated with it.
This groundbreaking new volume on social sustainability offers both
critique and creative solutions. It challenges the conventional
wisdoms of social sustainability and presents practical examples of
projects that will help practitioners to think carefully and
innovatively about the situations they are addressing. The book
consists of original contributions from academics working in the
fields of urban planning, housing, regeneration, transport and
international sustainable development. Drawing on case study
research gathered in the UK, Europe and Africa, it adopts an
original, interdisciplinary approach to both theory and practice,
illustrating the challenges and opportunities facing policy-makers
and practitioners attempting to develop, manage and maintain
sustainable communities. The authors argue that the dominant
approach of 'how to do' small scale social sustainability fails to
locate it within broader social processes. Ignoring the context not
only sustains, but also actively reproduces wider inequalities. The
book presents a new, more coherent and more complete approach to
issues of social sustainability in urban areas. The book approaches
current urban policy discourses in three different ways,
represented by three sections: firstly focusing on small places
within the urban fabric, secondly addressing the whole urban fabric
by examining whether changing urban living and working patterns.
The third section explores some of the ways that funding can be
secured to achieve the aims of social sustainability and the social
planning associated with it.
A livelihoods approach views the world from the point of view of
the individuals, households and social groups who are trying to
make a living in volatile conditions and with limited assets. It
provides a framework for understanding the opportunities and assets
available to poor people and the sources of their vulnerability, as
well as the impact upon them of external organizations, processes
and policies. Based on recent and extensive research, this
collection assesses the value of the livelihoods approach in
analyzing urban poverty and guiding the selection of policy and
program components. Part two reviews the situation and strategies
of poor urban people and identifies the policy and practical
implications. In part three reviews recent project experience and
finally policy and practical implications are identified.Lasting
improvements in well-being depend not just on economic development
but on political commitment to addressing the concerns of the poor
as well as governance structures and processes that are responsive
to the claims and needs of different groups of poor people. This
readable account will be important for professionals, development
workers, academics and students.
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