In Networking Neighborhoods, Erik Van Hove establishes a direct link between existing perceptions of cities and the persistence of urban poverty. He explores a mystery surrounding urban poverty-its perpetuation despite the great wealth of modern nations and their efforts to eradicate it. Through his overview of urban history, his appeal to the ideas of key urban sociologists, and his experiences as a partner in an unconventional neighborhood development agency, Van Hove offers a fresh way of looking at urban environments that enables the resuscitation of neighborhoods choked off from the vitality around them. Moving from theory to application, Van Hove illustrates his contentions through the work of the Neighborhood Development Agency, or BOM, founded in Antwerp, Belgium, in the 1980s by a coalition of university researchers and private and public agencies. Compiling and assessing the contributions of community workers, urban planners, economists, architects, and sociologists, Van Hove places the experience of the BOM within the broader field of urban renewal policy in the "welfare states" of the world.
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- Urban Sociology: A Selection from Contributions to Urban Sociology by Ernest W. Burgess on page 41, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics) by Henry Fielding on page 28, and Back Matter
- World Cities in a World-System by Paul L. Knox in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Blaisdell on page 43, and page 45
- Dilemmas of Social Reform by Peter Marris on page 137, and Back Matter
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