Community Development

A social capital framework and assessment for Glasgow: final report - UK

Assesses the levels of social capital in Glasgow and the potential scope for developing it.

ABCD method - Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) charts local talents and skills and mobilizes these for work on vital districts.

Administrative Modernisation Programme, Santo Andre

How to change an institution of centralistic, bureaucratic and total apathic servants to an open and transparent urban government.

AvenCentral Regeneration Partnership, Preston

Case study on the AvenCentral Regeneration Partnership, tasked with devising a way of informing and engaging the AvenCentral community and other stakeholders in the social and economic improvement of the area.

Birkland Community Exchange

Case study information – Birklands Community Exchange

Building Bridges through Managing Conflicts and Differences-Part 1

In this manual knowledge and skills are given about the way to prevent and to manage conflicts and differences in processes in which individuals and groups cooperate.

Building Communities from the Inside Out, ABCD-Method

How to focus on the capacities and assets of people living in troubled neighbourhoods, rather than insisting on problems and deficiencies?

Cavendish Gardens Co-op

This case study demonstrates that simple changes like starting a gardening co-operative can have tremendous affects both on the local environment and on the attitudes of local residents.

Central governments versus local governments

“Controlling, cajoling or cooperating?” explores the extend to which European central governments supervise, inspect and control local and regional authorities in relation to the issues of cost-effectiveness and improving the quality of services.

Changing forms of urban governance in Central and Eastern Europe

This paper summarises theoretical argumentation that is used to justify various claims on institutional reforms and verifies to what extent they are confirmed by actual behaviour of local actors.

Citizen participation in local cultural policy development for European cities

'A vibrant, diverse and inspiring cultural life to which citizens of all local communities and subcultures have access and can connect with, makes up a substantial part of the social fabric that determines functioning and attractive living localities – the quality of life that a place offers. What makes an individual a citizen (or not) of a particular town or place is largely determined by cultural aspects,' the Guide to Citizen Participation in Local Cultural Policy Development for European Cities states. The Guide that was jointly created by the Interarts Foundation, ECUMEST Association and the European Cultural Foundation, provides practical measures for the establishment of participative local cultural development processes.

Citizens participation in nature protection - managing biological and human diversity

Sustainable Urban Planning Networks for Green Spaces (SUN) – sought to increase community involvement in urban biodiversity through citizens participation. In the City of Rome and in London, all communities present were involved in drawing up biodiversity action plans. The project’s success was based upon the notion that to successfully manage the diversity of wildlife within an urban community also involves managing the its social, age, ability and ethnic diversity.

City and Enterprise: Corporate Community Involvement in European and US Cities

What are the implications of corporate community involvement for the sustainable development of cities and the creation of cross-sector partnerships?

City of Amsterdam introduces its own urban storyteller

The City of Amsterdam has its own urban storyteller. Karel Baracs, fulltime storyteller, has recently been appointed as such by alderman Freek Ossel. The urban storyteller will use the power of storytelling to let the history, present and the future of the city of Amsterdam come to life. Karel Baracs will write six stories every year and tell his stories at special events. Baracs' stories should contribute to an increased understanding of 'the other' and bring the citizens of Amsterdam closer together. Amsterdam is the first local council in the Netherlands to appoint an official city storyteller.

City-regional governance: on conceptual issues

This paper challenges basic assumptions on which ‘knowledge-based’ approaches are built and identifies the conceptual and policy implications this may have.

Communities taking control

A report from a cross-sector work group on community ownership and the management of assets.

Community Counselling System (Extensionismo Comunitario)

Training of representative citizens to become neighbourhood leaders in order to advise and supply answers to their community about juridical items.

Community empowerment in social services in Stuttgart & Nürtingen

In December 2008, the British company 'Governance International' organised astudy trip on community empowerment in social services to Nürtingen and Stuttgart, Germany. These two cities have been very successful at including and empowering the local community. This report presents the main findings and lessons from the trip that may also be of interest to other organisations and municipalities in Europe. It explains how and why Nürtingen and Stuttgart have been able to mobilise large parts of their inhabitants and how they have established rewarding partnerships between public, private and third-sectorparties.

Community organisations and young people – the benefits of working together

This document provides a summary of findings from the evaluation of the Neighbourhood Support Fund showing that community organisations can work effectively with young people and make a tangible difference to their lives.

Community Participation In Problem-solving And Decision-making

The manuals in this set present certain procedures and rational and cooperative techniques for encouraging group interactions in decision making and conflict management.

Community Revitalization in the United States and the United Kingdom

The flow of ideas between the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) includes approaches to housing policy, as the public sectors in both countries have turned toward the private sector to help provide affordable housing and support redevelopment activities. The Urban Institute and the Institute for Community Cohesion developed an innovative program of work to compare approaches to community revitalization, community cohesion and sustainable neighborhoods in cities across both countries. Ultimately, the purpose of the project is to influence policy and practice agendas in the UK and US by highlighting effective strategies for revitalizing communities and building community cohesion. This report describes the project, discusses contextual differences between the two countries that affect subsidized housing, and highlights lessons drawn from the exchanges that took place during the spring and summer of 2008.

Community Strategies: Working at different levels

This paper focuses on how community strategies are being developed in two-tier authorities and link in with the regional agenda.

Conclusions of the Information Society Network: Citizens, Content, Connect

The report brings together the findings of 13 partner cities, lead by Manchester City Council. It combines strategic insights with well illustrated case study material and is of interest to both policy makers and practitioners.

Cooperation for Urban Improvement and Community Development, Havana, Cuba.

An integrated co-operation project to solve some of the problems being faced in Havana, using the organised human-resources potential already in place in Cuban society, helping to strengthen and optimise the use of the financial contributions made, with efficient, participatory management of the funds.

Creating places where people want to live, work and visit

Learning points are a series of publications designed to share the lessons learned from regenerations activities, produced by the SCR.

Creating successful neighbourhoods: lessons and actions for housing market renewal

Explores the progress being made by a programme to put new life into the housing market in areas where there has been market failure.

Darlington Communities Project

The study details a project employing four community development workers and a neighbourhood manager to help to establish and support community partnerships and to assist in building residents’ capacity in Darlington.

Delft contributes to UN´s Millennium Development Goals

The municipality of Delft has a long tradition of international relations in developing countries. In 1984 Delft started to build up bands with the city Estelí, in Nicaragua due to the revolution of the Sandinistas. Members of the University Delft went to Estelí to support the revolution in order to strike against the dictatorship. Later on, in 1994 the municipality of Delft also started cooperation with the town Mamelodi in the district Pretoria/ Tshwane. When the Apartheid was ended, social institutions and the city of Delft decided to support the start of the new South Africa. Delfts involvement with both of the cities (Estelí and Mamelodi) can be seen as a town twinning partnership. With these partnerships Delft contributes to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and can be seen as a Dutch Millennium Municipality. The city of Delft tries to improve the economical and/or health situation in these Third World towns or cities. These town twinning relations in Nicaragua and South Africa are part of Delfts international solidarity programme.

Deprived districts on the up, The Netherlands

Residents of a number of districts in Heerlen, Sittard-Geleen and Venlo, all in the southern province of Limburg, are socially and economically deprived.

Developing Buildings as Community Assets

"Learning Points" share what people have learned from experience in regeneration: This is based on the belief that communities can gain long term benefits from taking responsibility for the ownership and control of buildings and developing them to meet community needs.

District-oriented working - the Zwolle variant, The Netherlands

In Zwolle, local residents play a crucial role in nominating the improvement projects to be implemented in their districts. Under the motto 'That's how we do things in Zwolle', further agreements are being made regarding the 'style' of district-oriented working in the town.

E-Ventspils in Latvia

Using information and telecommunication technologies as an enabler, the Latvian city of Ventspils has created an electronic government programme focusing on a region-wide telecommunications, applications and data network.

East End Life: informing and bringing together diverse ethnic communities - London, UK

East End Life is a full-colour, weekly newspaper published by the Council of Tower Hamlets, an ethnically diverse London borough. Through East End Life, the Council keeps residents and businesses up-to-date with Council and local news in an informal and accessible way. Tower Hamlets is the first local authority in the United Kingdom to have a council-owned weekly publication, which is widely read by all ethnic groups in the borough.

Emmen Revisited

Combining social and physical: restructuring coupled with improving social cohesion in three residential districts, creating broad support for the operation using a cyclical process of information provision and public consultation.

Ethnic diversity reduces individual trust in neighbourhoods

In 2007, Putnam claimed that in the short run, immigration and ethnic diversity tend to reduce solidarity and social capital. He presented new evidence from the United States that in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods residents of all ethnic groups tend to ‘hunker down’. Since Putnam only analysed data for the US, he proposed to test his claim in other countries. This paper by Bram Lancee and Jaap Dronkers provides the analysis of Putnam's claim for The Netherlands. The authors' main question is whether individual trust in neighbours and the neighbourhood can also be explained by ethnic diversity in the neighbourhood in Europe, as Putnam stated.

European Integration: A matter of acknowledging identities

By using policy briefs the Network of Excellence IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion) aims to bring research to the attention of policy makers and at the same time translate the results into meaningful and useful messages to them.

European Neighbours' Day promotes solidarity among European citizens

European Neighbours' Day is an event which occurs every year on the last Tuesday of May. This year the event will take place on May 27. Through exchanging and sharing experiences and good practices, this event gives citizens the opportunity to interact and join in the construction of a closer and more human Europe. The event was set up in 1990 in order to give people a feeling of common membership and forge a European identity based on socializing and solidarity. Cities or partner organization participating in the event, receive a communication kit to promote the celebration and rouse people's interest. But in the end it is up to citizens themselves to act and organize their own activities.

European Times: public opinion about Europe. Working hours compared and explained.

What is the Europeans´ view on ‘Europe’? What similarities and differences exist between European countries and the United States in terms of working hours?

Formative Evaluation of Community Strategies: The use of evidence in community strategies

This report outlines how sustainable community strategies can be evidence-based. It details a model for developing such an evidence base and provides advice on the sources of evidence available to local authorities.

Go4Craft

A project that tries to spark asylum seekers’ interest in cultural activities by offering workshops on photography, writing, music, and setting up a magazine.

Habitat Debate Vol. 10, No. 1 – A new era of cooperation with local authorities

During the last ten years, UN-HABITAT has developed extensive relations with local authorities and their associations. This publication discusses new rulings on local authority involvement and their possible impacts on the future of local authority cooperation.

Housing for Black Community, Itaoca

Housing conditions and quality of life were substantially improved in the remnant slave community of Cangume.

Implementing the Habitat Agenda: Urban Management Programme City Consultation Case Studies (UMP No. 28).

Through eight case studies the Urban Management Programme (UMP) city consultation process is examinated and the Habitat Agenda is implemented. The publication shows that the Istanbul Declarations (1996) are strongly supported by the UMP.

Improving open spaces with community involvement - United Kingdom

The report evaluates the Living Spaces programme which was launched in 2003. Living Spaces supports neighbourhood groups throughout England in making improvements to open spaces in their neighbourhood and creating valuable places for the whole community to enjoy.

Innovative outreach project 'Connect' helps people get ahead

How do you really help get ahead in deprived neighbourhoods? The London-based outreach project 'Connect' may have found the solution. It works by contacting residents directly through systematic door-knocking on social housing estates. Connect advisors talk to residents of all ages about issues affecting their lives and puts them in touch with agencies that can provide support. Three weeks later, the Connect advisor contacts the agency and the client to confirm that contact took place and to make sure that the support or advice provided was valuable. According to the people behind Connect, it is this tenacious approach that makes the service so effective.

Interact: participating in a transnational network

Interact is a thematic network of 12 European cities on the implementation of strategic plans in cities.

International Legal Instruments Addressing Good Governance

Study on how widely the principles of good urban governance, as defined under the Global Campaign on Urban Governance, are agreed in international legally binding conventions.

INVOLVE – Integration of third country nationals through volunteering

Migration, integration and volunteering are subject to considerable public and political debate in Europe. The INVOLVE project aimed to link these debates. The project focused on finding an answer to the following question: ‘How can volunteering be better used in order to facilitate integration needed as a consequence of migration?’ INVOLVE has made explicit the potential of volunteering as an instrument for improving the integration of immigrants, urging national and local governments to pursue action.

K'Cidade improves quality of life of vulnerable urban groups in Portugal

Large European cities are conditioned by the impact of economic globalisation and increasing migration both from inside and outside the European Union. New forms of poverty are excluding people from a minimal acceptable way of life. The Urban Community Support Programme (CSP) K'Cidade tries to counter this development. The programme aims at improving the quality of life of vulnerable urban groups in Lisbon and Sintra, Portugal. The programme seeks to establish an effective permanent system for communities to plan for and resolve their own needs, with both public and private support. It has received institutional recognition as a result of the mobilisation of a diverse network of partners and aims, to address the challenges facing poor and socially excluded urban communities.

Key steps to sustainable area regeneration

This document sets out key steps for sustainable regeneration, based on the key conclusions of JRF's Area Regeneration Programme.

Knowledge Network, Governance in Action

Seventeen cities and four research institutes of eleven countries in Europe work together in the programme "Knowledge Network, Governance in Action". Governance in Action is about shifting from government to governance, from working for the people to working with the people.

Learning to change neighbourhoods: Lessons from the Guide Neighbourhoods Programme, UK

'Many people feel powerless to do anything about the issues that affect their daily lives. For some, the organisations which take the decisions seem beyond their influence, so people are left with a diminishing sense of confidence and responsibility. Increasingly people feel that public authorities are not interested in their concerns, let alone their opinions'. This quote illustrate show many people in Great Britain feel about the management of their neighbourhoods. In order to promote the empowerment of local residents, the UK Home Office set up the Guide Neighbourhoods Programme. The programme has now come to an end and has recently been evaluated. The evaluation report presents the key lessons learned from the Guide Neighbourhoods Programme and suggests ways of taking forward the principle of citizen-led learning in community empowerment and turning the lessons into actions.

Lending a hand: the value of ‘light touch’ support in empowering communities - UK

Highlights the lessons so far from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Neighbourhood Programme of support for community empowerment.

Livestock fairs in Portugal and Spain, a centuries-long tradition

In the 13th century, the livestock fairs of Zafra in Estremadura, Spain and of Beja in Alentejo, Portugal were gathering points for the regions' main economic players. The tradition has continued to this day.

LKC Awards 2006

The New Deal for Communities in Lower Kersal and Charlestown encouraged and recruited young people aged between 13 and 19 in these areas of Salford to plan and stage an awards evening to recognise their contribution to the local community.

Local Development Program in Barrio Cristo Rey, San José

Developing a physical, social and environmental renewal in old, deteriorated neighbourhoods

LSP Learning Programme on Sustainable Communities

Presents an indicative Learning Programme on sustainable communities for Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs).

Making sense of community

This report looks at what impact policy can and does have on local social relations and identifies a possible framework within which trust and interaction might be encouraged to flourish in local neighbourhoods.

Matchmaking in Spanish city of Candeleda to combat dwindling population

A Spanish dating association is trying to slow a population drain from the country's central villages by introducing bachelors to women bussed in from Madrid. Candeleda, a village of 6,000 on the banks of the Lobera river, hosted a weekend fiesta in April 2012 to welcome 68 women for a meet-and-greet with the its single men.

Measuring Socially Sustainable Urban Regeneration in Europe

In a research called ‘Measuring Socially Sustainable Urban Regeneration in Europe’ by Andrea Colantonio and Tim Dixon et. al. it is argued that previous research on sustainability has been mainly limited to environmental and economic concerns. However in recent years social sustainability has gained increased recognition as a fundamental component of sustainable development, beginning to receive political and institutional endorsement within the sustainable development agenda, and the sustainable urban regeneration discourse.

Mobile municipal government

The goal of the Mobile Municipal Government, to increase the accessibility of social services provided jointly by the Municipality and other organizations, was fully met.

National Evaluation of Local Strategic Partnerships - Issues Paper: Below the Local Strategic Partnership

This report focuses on LSP activities at the sub-local authority level, examining LSP responses to government policy encouraging neighbourhood working and outlining key enabling and constraining factors.

National Evaluation of Local Strategic Partnerships - Issues Paper: Leadership in Local Strategic Partnerships

The report discusses concepts and practices of leadership within the context of LSPs, drawing on research evidence and concluding with a model for taking forward issues of LSP leadership.

Neighbour Hood – Friction Arts

This case study describes an arts project aimed at engaging hard-to reach groups in inner-city Birmingham.

Neighbourhood Regeneration in the Holmbladsgade-district - Copenhagen

Regeneration with at strong focus on culture and sports activities.

Neighbourhood Regeneration in the Holmbladsgade-district - DK

Kvarterløft is an area based and multidimensional approach to urban renewal that is experimenting with bottom up processes, with decentralising the initiative to local stakeholders and with empowerment of the citizens and the local communities. This district was selected since it was an old worn-down working class neighbourhood that needed a physical and social lift.

Neighbourhood Renewal Routemap

Neighbourhood Renewal routemap designed to help the reader think through what decisions need to be taken, what options are available, and what the reader needs to consider to make sure they come up with something that meets particular local objectives and circumstances.

Neighbourhood-oriented working and security - Maastricht, Netherlands

The city of Maastricht is working successfully on improving the quality of life in neighbourhoods through projects such as neighbourhood-oriented working and security. By taking an area-oriented approach to maintenance and at the same time through management and oversight in the city's neighbourhoods Maastricht is emerging as the Netherlands' second safest city.

Organisational Support and Improvement of Living Conditions in irregular settlements (poblaciones) in the Municipality of Cerro Navia

A programme to achieve co-ordination among the various actors for an improved local management and more efficiency in using the resources of the state programmes intended to overcome poverty.

Participatory Management System, Municipality of Quito, Ecuador

To afford an comprehensive, decentralized and a deconcentrated policy the local government involves the Participatory Management System (PMS).

Participatory Planning for Sustainable Growth and Development

Participatory Urban and Territorial Planning, Costa Rica

To improve the strategy of urban development of local governments this project provides technological and conceptual capacities to the grass roots.

Partnership On Socio-Economic and Integrated Development Of Deprived Neighbourhoods, POSEIDON

The POSEIDON partnership develops an innovative and integrated approach as well as new methods for the systematic establishment of economic development and social inclusion at the local level.

Partnerships in problem neighbourhoods

The paper contributes to the discussion on the assets and drawbacks of public-private partnerships in urban restructuring processes.

Plexus Centre: “Involve as many people as possible from the very beginning”

Idom and Raasted are two small villages in Western Jutland which are facing depopulation. The two small villages are 6 kilometres apart and were considered not big enough for new activities or services for the local population to be set up. However, the inhabitants themselves felt a great need for a place where they could meet other people to play sports, shop, and indulge in cultural activities, day-care and leisure activities. That is why the Plexus Centre was set up in Idom . It is run by a non-profit-making organisation which focuses on three central services: commercial, local and cultural.

Promoting Sustainable Communities and Community Cohesion

The sustainable communities agenda is becoming increasingly popular among urban professionals and organisations. However, the agenda could still feature more in policy development. The purpose of this research conducted by the Institute of Community Cohesion was to explore how the sustainable communities and community cohesion agendas may be promoted, developed and embedded within and across different professional disciplines and sectors in the United Kingdom. In particular, the work aimed to discover how routes to learning, programmes of professional development and the dissemination of information could contribute.

Promoting Sustainable Communities and Community Cohesion

The purpose of this report is to explore how the Sustainable Communities and Community Cohesion agendas may be promoted, developed and embedded within and across different professional disciplines and sectors.

QUOTA youth project – Palermo, IT

Through the QUOTA project, teenagers and young people that live in Palermo can participate in new community activities.

Rio-Cidade (Urbanism Back to the Streets)

Rio Cidade is a concept designed by Rio de Janeiro City Administration to improve urban planning with community participation.

SCP Source Book Series, Volume 2: Organising, Conducting and Reporting an SCP City Consultation

This document describes and explains the necessary steps of the SCP (Sustainable Cities Programme) methodology on City Consultation.

Self-help Housing: Mutirao 50, Fortaleza, Brazil

A people’s council organized self-help housing for evicted poor families.

Setting up a BME Citizens Panel – Lessons Learned from Merseyside Community Voice

Merseyside Community Voice has established a Citizens Panel made up of representatives from the culturally diverse communities and neighbourhoods across Merseyside, with the aim of engaging and consulting on a whole range of issues.

Sinfin Neighbourhood Services Link

Case Study Information - Sinfin Neighbourhood Services Link, Derby.

Single Window Cell- Openness and Transparency in Urban Governance, Hyderabad

The creation of the Single Window Cell front office for water supply and sewerage simplified costumers’ access to these basic services making the process easier and more reliable. Abuses were tackled efficaciously.

Skills for the Future – Academy for Sustainable Communities research report

Skills for the Future examines the European skills issue around sustainable place making and explores solutions to the skills gap that exists. The research provides the learning for improving skills in the creation of successful places and demonstrates that there is a widespread interest in, and commitment to, creating and maintaining successful places. The report is created by the Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC).

Social cohesion and cost effective community development in the United States

Having local residents organising their own major community event leads to better dialogue between residents and local authorities. At the same time, the proceeds of the event are invested in community projects.

Social District Development - 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands

The City of ‘s-Hertogenbosch has strengthened the cooperation between the social and physical pillar of the GSB, the Dutch national urban policy strategy. In particular, the Culture, Welfare and Social Affairs sector of the municipality is supported in the development of knowledge and skills to improve its contribution in its cooperation with the physical sector in restructuring operations.

Social Quartet - Civil actors of social welfare in four Hungarian towns - HU

Small and medium-size towns are perhaps the most important scenes of non-profit activities in Hungary. This book reports on research conducted among nonprofit organisations engaged in social welfare activity in four Hungarian towns: Békés, Komló, Sárvár and Sátoraljaújhely. The investigation provided the opportunity to examine similarities and differences between the towns and also to draw certain conclusions. In Hungary recent years numerous representative empirical surveys have examined the place of nonprofit organisations in the welfare model. Experts concluded from findings that civil organisations are playing a big role in easing social and social welfare tensions, particularly in local societies. At the same time it also became obvious that substantial differences can be found from one region and area to another and even from one town to another in the tasks undertaken by the nonprofit organisations. For this reason, with the support of Vienna-based Institute for Human Sciences, Social Consequences of Economic Transformation in Central Eastern Europe (SOCO) programme, we launched an investigation aimed at comparing the operation of organisations in towns located in different regions of Hungary.

Social Strategies: Coordination and Networking in Monte Caseros

The belief that an individual locality can make its own decesions best and enact upon them; the ensuing social structure, the democratic participatory process and the decentralization of the local government has created a new relationship between state and civilian society.

Stockton Borough Council: Engaging Partners

The case study details the safer Stockton partnership which was established to enhance community safety in the area.

Strengthening the Municipal Association of Nepal (MuAN), Kathmandu, Nepal

MuAN, a member-funded umbrella organization, was founded in the spirit of decentralization and good governance

Terrorism and community relations

This report by the Home Affairs Committee deals with three main questions: How can a further deterioration in community relations be prevented? How can the community relations be improved again? How can future acts of terrorism be prevented?

The City in Balance

Focus on local resources through an appreciative approach. Development of local institutions, organisations and volunteers.

The community development challenge

This report assesses strengths and weaknesses in current community development activity.

The differential impact of gentrification on communities in Chicago - USA

Loyola University Chicago, Center for Urban Research and Learning examined the impact of gentrification upon different groups of Chicagoans, in particular the experiences of different racial, ethnic, and economic groups were examined.

The dynamics of local economies and deprived neighbourhoods

An overview of the dynamics of local economies within which deprived neighbourhoods are located in order to identify the implications and lessons for policy development within the context of neighbourhood renewal.

The effort of the municipalities in deprived neighbourhoods

A tool for mutual inspiration and learning of the experiences of municipalities.

The experience of the Community Links Social Enterprise Zone

JRF findings paper detailing the experience of the UK's first Social Enterprise Zone (SEZ) which took the principles behind Business Enterprise Zones (BEZ) and looked at whether the same approach could be applied to the delivery of community services.

The Experience of the Mangaung Local Municipality, Bloemfontein

The ward planning used by this municipality is yielding immense results, particularly in the area of local economic development.

The Kolpingbuurt: Our Neighbourhood’s Move - Nijmegen, the Netherlands

The Kolpingbuurt is a small, isolated, long-term disadvantaged neighbourhood. In the past it had a school, a local shop and a community centre, but cuts and natural decline have resulted in them disappearing one after the other. A neighbourhood survey in 1998 showed that the area has significant safety issues. The Kolpingbuurt is one of the three Nijmegen neighbourhoods where an ‘Our Neighbourhood's Move’ project is being run.

The New (and Old) Politics of Urban Problem-solving

The paper outlines major trends affecting both the nature of urban problems and the shape of much public interest problem-solving in urban America.

The Role of the City in Fostering Intergroup Communication in a Multicultural Environment

In this paper, two aspects of the issue of Intergroup Communication in a Multicultural Environment are discussed. First, there is the role of authorities, NGOs in forming the multicultural environment in the city with cultural diversity. Second, the city as social context, the images and myths of the city determine discourse on multiculturalism and influence the cross-cultural communication in the city.

Urban Culture

To prevent segregation in the Information Society with free access, education and participation, content creation and communality.

Urban development and climate protection in Hannover - Bristol case study

In 2002, the Hannover city and county administrations were combined and internal structures underwent far-reaching reorganisation. They did so in order to reduce bureaucracy and to improve the coordination and delivery in regional planning, transport and environmental policies.

Urban Etiquette project Rotterdam

How can social engagement, the quality of life and individual safety and security in Rotterdam be improved by drawing up common rules of social interaction? The Urban Etiquette project ('Stadsetiquette') is helping the people of Rotterdam find rules of social interaction appropriate to a changing, multicultural society. The goal is to improve the general quality of life in the city.

Urban Planning and Cultural Inclusion

Comparison of recent spatial planning developments of two cities, Berlin and Belfast, scarred by physical walls of division.

Urban regeneration through partnership: A critical appraisal

Introduction This document is a summary of the main conclusions of a study of 27 partnerships in nine city-regions, identifying key lessons for better partnership, and critical issues about policy and governance which affect the future of Britain's cities.

Urban renewal in Nordbyen in Randers

The creation of new urban spaces in socially disadvantaged housing areas.

Urbanization, Habitation and Communitarian Development of Chico Mendes Region

Through the urbanization program, life conditions for 250 families were improved.

Well begun...mentor partnerships with bilingual kids

A project aiming to give young people social resources and support through mentor-mentee partherships.

YouthBank UK

The focus is on engaging young people in the North West region.

Zambujal Melhora!

The Zambujal Neighbourhood in the Municipality of Amadora (PT) is regarded as a critical urban area. It is located in one of the most competitive and attractive Lisbon areas. Despite its favourable geographical location Zambujal neighbourhood, mostly built in the 70s and 80s, presents a high state of degradation and social stigma is difficult to overcome.

“The Hero”, professional footballers visit pupils in The Hague

Under the ‘Hero’ project top professional footballers visit pupils in the last year of primary school. They talk to the children about bullying, teasing, discrimination, random violence etc.