Social Innovations in the Urban Context.

By: Brandsen, TacoContributor(s): Cattacin, Sandro | Evers, Adalbert | Zimmer, AnnetteMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Nonprofit and Civil Society StudiesPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2016Copyright date: �2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (309 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783319215518Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Social Innovations in the Urban ContextDDC classification: 307.76 LOC classification: HMOnline resources: Click to View
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 M�unster -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 M�unster's Embeddedness in Germany's Governance Arrangement -- 3.2.1 Cooperative Federalism, Self-government and Subsidiarity -- 3.2.2 M�unster: Desk of Westphalia-City Profile -- 3.2.3 Winds of Change -- 3.3 M�unster's "Governance of Cooperation" -- 3.3.1 M�unster as "Growth Machine": The Investment Frame -- 3.3.2 M�unster a City Based on Subsidiarity: The "Prevention Frame" -- 3.3.3 The Policy Coalition -- 3.4 Governance Structures, Discourses and Innovations in M�unster's Labour Market and Housing Policy -- 3.4.1 Labour Market Policy in M�unster -- 3.4.2 Housing Policy in M�unster -- 3.5 Windows of Opportunity for Social Innovations in M�unster? -- References -- Chapter-4 -- Inertia, Clearings, and Innovations in Malm�o -- 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 Malm�o -- 4.7 Fertile Clearings for Social Innovations -- 4.8 Ideological Inertia in Malm�o -- 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 -- M�unster: How Prevention Visits Improve Local Child Protection -- 21.1   M�unster-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.
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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 M�unster -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 M�unster's Embeddedness in Germany's Governance Arrangement -- 3.2.1 Cooperative Federalism, Self-government and Subsidiarity -- 3.2.2 M�unster: Desk of Westphalia-City Profile -- 3.2.3 Winds of Change -- 3.3 M�unster's "Governance of Cooperation" -- 3.3.1 M�unster as "Growth Machine": The Investment Frame -- 3.3.2 M�unster a City Based on Subsidiarity: The "Prevention Frame" -- 3.3.3 The Policy Coalition -- 3.4 Governance Structures, Discourses and Innovations in M�unster's Labour Market and Housing Policy -- 3.4.1 Labour Market Policy in M�unster -- 3.4.2 Housing Policy in M�unster -- 3.5 Windows of Opportunity for Social Innovations in M�unster? -- References -- Chapter-4 -- Inertia, Clearings, and Innovations in Malm�o -- 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 Malm�o -- 4.7 Fertile Clearings for Social Innovations -- 4.8 Ideological Inertia in Malm�o -- 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 -- M�unster: How Prevention Visits Improve Local Child Protection -- 21.1   M�unster-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.

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