| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Resilience and residualism -- 3. The voluntary sector within the post-welfare city -- 4. Methodological approaches -- 5. National and local settlements: London, UK; Los Angeles, US; Sydney, Australia -- 6. Established gentryfied place-types -- 7. Mixed place-types -- 8. Pioneer gentrified place-types -- 9. Immigrant enclaves -- 10. Comparative analysis and summary -- 11. The critical resilience of the residuals -- 12. Here, now: recasting service hubs in an age of austerity. |
| Summary |
Moving beyond theoretical notions of 'resilience' this is the first book to offer a conceptual and empirical approach to exploring and comparing the process of resilience across service 'hubs' in three complex but different global inner-city regions: London, Los Angeles and Sydney. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Inner cities -- Case studies.
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Inner cities. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Nonprofit organizations -- Case studies.
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Nonprofit organizations. |
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Gentrification -- Case studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. |
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Gentrification. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Volunteer Work. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: DeVerteuil, Geoffrey. Resilience in the post-welfare inner city. Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2015 9781447316558 (OCoLC)891615762 |
| ISBN |
1447316630 (electronic book) |
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9781447316633 (electronic book) |
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9781447316565 (electronic book) |
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1447316568 (electronic book) |
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9781447316558 |
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144731655X |
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