Table of Contents: Social Innovations in the Urban Context.

Social Innovations in the Urban Context.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brandsen, Taco.
Other Authors:	Cattacin, Sandro., Evers, Adalbert., Zimmer, Annette.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2016.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
Subjects:	Electronic books.
Online Access:	Click to View

Table of Contents:

Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Contributors
About the Editors
Part I
Introduction
Chapter-1
Social Innovation: A Sympathetic and Critical Interpretation
1.1 The Promise and Challenge of Social Innovations
1.2 Social Innovation: A Contested Issue and the Concept Proposed by WILCO
1.3 Aims and Methodology
1.4 Contributions to the Book
References
Part II
Urban Contexts for Local Innovations
Chapter-2
Urban Governance and Social Innovations
2.1 State of the Art: The Governance Approach
2.1.1 The European-City Approach
2.1.2 Analysing Urban Governance
2.1.3 Urban Welfare Governance Arrangements
2.1.4 Social Policies at the City Level
2.2 Twenty Cities Compared
2.3 A Typology of Urban Governance
2.3.1 Major Policy Trends in the Governance of Social Challenges
2.3.2 Urban Welfare Governance
2.4 Conclusion
References
Chapter-3
Everybody on Board? Opportunity Structures for Social Innovations in Münster
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Münster's Embeddedness in Germany's Governance Arrangement
3.2.1 Cooperative Federalism, Self-government and Subsidiarity
3.2.2 Münster: Desk of Westphalia-City Profile
3.2.3 Winds of Change
3.3 Münster's "Governance of Cooperation"
3.3.1 Münster as "Growth Machine": The Investment Frame
3.3.2 Münster a City Based on Subsidiarity: The "Prevention Frame"
3.3.3 The Policy Coalition
3.4 Governance Structures, Discourses and Innovations in Münster's Labour Market and Housing Policy
3.4.1 Labour Market Policy in Münster
3.4.2 Housing Policy in Münster
3.5 Windows of Opportunity for Social Innovations in Münster?
References
Chapter-4
Inertia, Clearings, and Innovations in Malmö
4.1 Inertia, Clearings, and Innovations
4.2 A City of Many Welfare Projects
4.3 Towards a Welfare Society.
4.4 Lingering Social Problems
4.5 The Necessity to Act
4.6 Three Social Innovations in Malmö
4.7 Fertile Clearings for Social Innovations
4.8 Ideological Inertia in Malmö
4.9 Shifting Scenery
References
Chapter-5
Birmingham, Priority to Economics, Social Innovation at the Margins
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Context and Governance of Social Policies
5.3 What Does Context Mean for Social Innovation?
5.4 Summary and Conclusion: Innovation at the Margins
References
Chapter-6
Social Policies and Governance in Geneva: What About Social Innovation?
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Geneva's Challenges: Multilevel Governance and Multiple Territories
6.3 Pioneering Local Welfare State?
6.4 Actors and Power Relations Around Social Policies
6.4.1 Canton of Geneva: From Two Coalitions to Three (and a Half)
6.4.2 The City of Geneva: From the Dominance of the Left to Complex Coalitions
6.5 Core Values and Strategies in the Political Arena
6.5.1 More or Less State Intervention?
6.5.2 Childcare and Unemployment: State Versus Mixed Solutions
6.6 Geneva's Welfare Governance Arrangements: State and Non-Profit Without For-Profit? What About Social Innovation?
6.7 Conclusion
References
Chapter-7
Milan: A City Lost in the Transition from the Growth Machine Paradigm Towards a Social Innovation Approach
7.1 Introduction: Milan and Its Pragmatism in Local Welfare
7.2 The Changing Governance of Social Policies in Milan
7.3 Affordable Housing Policies in Milan: Conflicting Narratives, Social Effects, and Governance Styles
7.4 Concluding Remarks: Local Development, Social Innovation, and Governance Alternatives
References
Chapter-8
Poor but Sexy? Berlin as a Context for Social Innovation
8.1 Introduction
8.2 What Makes a Context-Centred Perspective Valuable?.
8.3 Context Factors in Berlin
8.4 Insights from Three Local Contexts of Social Policy
8.4.1 The Context of Housing and Urban Planning
8.4.2 The Context of Child and Family Policy
8.4.3 The Context of Employment
8.5 Summary and Conclusions
References
Part III
Local Social Innovations
Chapter-9
Social Innovations as Messages: Democratic Experimentation in Local Welfare Systems
9.1 Social Innovations as Messages-an Approach and a Metaphor
9.1.1 The Concept of Messages
9.1.2 Recurring and Shared Features of Welfare Innovations-Five Key Messages
9.2 Sending and Receiving-the Diffusion of Social Innovations
9.3 Conclusions
References
Chapter-10
Warsaw: Paving New Ways for Participation of Mothers, Fathers, and Children in Local Public and Social Life-The MaMa Foundation
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Warsaw As a Context of Innovation
10.3 The Foundation
10.3.1 Types of Services and Ways of Addressing Users
10.3.2 Internal Organization and Modes of Working
10.3.3 Embeddedness in the Local Welfare System
10.4 Conclusions
References
Chapter-11
Zagreb: Parents in Action-Innovative Ways of Support and Policies for Children, Women and Families
11.1 Introduction
11.2 RODA
11.2.1 Internal Organisation and Modes of Working
11.2.2 Concepts and Ways of Addressing Users
11.2.3 Interaction with the Local Welfare System
11.3 Conclusions
References
Chapter-12
Amsterdam: Neighbourhood Stores for Education, Research, and Talent Development-The BOOT Project
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Neighbourhood Stores for Education, Research, and Talent Development (Buurtwinkels voor Onderzoek, Onderwijs en Talentontwikkeling)
12.2.1 Conceptions and Ways of Addressing Users
12.2.2 Internal Organization and Modes of Working.
12.2.3 Interaction with the Local Welfare System
12.2.4 Future Developments
12.3 Conclusion
Chapter-13
: Co-production of Housing in a Major Urban Renewal District
13.1 Introduction
13.2 The Ilot Stephenson Rehabilitation
13.3 Approaches and Ways of Addressing Users
13.4 Internal Organisation and Working Methods
13.5 Embeddedness in the Local Welfare System
References
Chapter-14
Pamplona: Neighbourhood Children Services-A Grassroots and Local Council Initiative
14.1 Introduction
14.2 The Context
14.3 The Development of Neighbourhood Children's Services in Pamplona
14.3.1 Conceptions and Ways of Addressing Users
14.3.2 Organisation and Modes of Working
14.3.3 Governance
14.4 Conclusions
References
Chapter-15
Berlin: Kreuzberg Acts-Entrepreneurship in the District
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Kreuzberg Acts : The Innovation
15.2.1 Types of Services and Ways of Addressing Users
15.2.2 Internal Organization and Modes of Working
15.2.3 Embeddedness of the Project in the Local Welfare System
15.3 Conclusion
References
Chapter-16
Milan: "We Help You to Help Yourself"-The Project of the Fondazione Welfare Ambrosiano
16.1 Milan and the Context of Innovation in Welfare Policies
16.2 Fondazione Welfare Ambrosiano: Basic Features
16.3 The Core Activity: Micro-credit Guarantees, a New Welfare Instrument
16.4 New Frontiers: FWA as an Innovator in the Local Welfare System
References
Chapter-17
Stockholm: Innovative Ways of Supporting Children of Single (Lone) Mothers
17.1 Introduction
17.2 Children of Single (Lone) Mothers (Barn till Ensamma Mammor)
17.2.1 Internal Characteristics
17.2.2 Dealing with Local Context
17.3 Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter-18.
Nijmegen: Work Corporations-for the Unemployed, by the Unemployed
18.1 Introduction
18.2 Work Corporations
18.2.1 Internal Organisation
18.2.2 Ways of Addressing Users
18.2.3 Interaction with the Local Welfare System
18.3 Future Developments
18.4 Conclusion
References
Chapter-19
Birmingham: The Youth Employment and Enterprise Rehearsal Project
19.1 Introduction
19.2 YEER Project
19.2.1 Context
19.3 Conclusion
Chapter-20
Birmingham: A "Locality Approach" to Combating Worklessness
20.1 Introduction
20.2 A Locality Approach to Unemployment
20.2.1 Internal Organisation
20.2.2 Interaction with Users
20.2.3 Context
20.3 Conclusion
References
Chapter-21
Münster: How Prevention Visits Improve Local Child Protection
21.1 Münster-City Context and the Field of Local Childcare Policy
21.2 Internal Characteristics of the Prevention Visits
21.2.1 Improving Local Child Protection by Assisting Every Family-Goals and Ways of Addressing Users
21.2.2 Internal Organisation and Modes of Working
21.2.3 Context of the Innovation-Interaction with the Local Welfare System
21.3 Conclusion
References
Newspaper Articles
Interviews
Internet
Chapter-22
Barcelona: A Citizen's Agreement for an Inclusive City
22.1 Barcelona's Sociopolitical Structure
22.2 The Programme "Citizen's Agreement for an Inclusive Barcelona"
22.2.1 The Programme
22.2.2 Impact of the Programme
22.3 Conclusions
22.3.1 The CA Programme
22.3.2 The Action Networks
Chapter-23
Bern: Integration Guidelines
23.1 Introduction
23.2 The Context
23.3 Integration Guidelines
23.3.1 Internal Organization and Mode of Working
23.3.2 Conception and Ways of Addressing Users
23.3.3 Interaction with the Governance System.
23.4 Conclusion.

Social Innovations in the Urban Context.

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