Socially Inclusive Cities

by Herrle, Peter

• ISBN13: 9783825869717
• ISBN10: 3825869717
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-28
• Publisher: Lit Verlag

Summary

Urban poverty and exclusion are growing worldwide - some suspect not in spite, but because of increasing wealth and globalisation. And they concentrate in particular urban areas: The rich-poor-divide can be traced in the microcosm of cities of the north and south, east and west. In many countries, however, integrated strategies for social cities are under way to counteract these tendencies of social, economic and spatial polarisation. Access to basic infrastructure, security of tenure, urban design and planning play a vital role in these integrated area-based approaches. They are part and parcel of new forms of governance and urban management.

Table of Contents

Peter Herrle, Uwe-Jens Walther
Introduction: Socially Inclusive Cities: New Solutions for Old Problems – or Old Wine in New Bottles?	1	(8)
Reinhard Goethert
Planning with People – Challenges to the Paradigm	9	(14)
Horst Matthäus
Towards Inclusion? Lessons from Recife, Brazil	23	(28)
Alicia Ziccardi and Arturo Mier y Terán
Poverty and Policies of Social Inclusion in Mexico City – "Mejoramiento de Viviendas" Upgrading Scheme	51	(22)
Christoph Stump
Melrose Commons, South Bronx A Community's Fight for Inclusive Planning	73	(34)
Debra Roberts
Durban's Local Agenda 21/Local Action 21 Program A Vehicle for Social Inclusion?	107	(22)
Monika El Shorbagi
Informal Areas and Strategies of Inclusion in the Context of an Urban Development Project in Cairo	129	(26)
Neelima Risbud
Slum Upgradation in India – Steps Towards Inclusion	155	(30)
Anne Power
Neighbourhood Management and the Future of Urban Areas	185	(36)
Mary Corcoran White
The Regeneration of Fatima Mansions: Lessons from Dublin	221	(20)
Heidede Becker and Hans-Peter Löhr
Socially Integrative City Strategies in Germany – Experience and Prospects	241