Constructing Community (eBook)

Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston

Jeremy Levine (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20588-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban developmentWho makes decisions that shape the housing, policies, and social programs in urban neighborhoods? Who, in other words, governs? Constructing Community offers a rich ethnographic portrait of the individuals who implement community development projects in the Fairmount Corridor, one of Boston's poorest areas. Jeremy Levine uncovers a network of nonprofits and philanthropic foundations making governance decisions alongside public officials-a public-private structure that has implications for democratic representation and neighborhood inequality.Levine spent four years following key players in Boston's community development field. While state senators and city councilors are often the public face of new projects, and residents seem empowered through opportunities to participate in public meetings, Levine found a shadow government of nonprofit leaders and philanthropic funders, nonelected neighborhood representatives with their own particular objectives, working behind the scenes. Tying this system together were political performances of "e;community"e;-government and nonprofit leaders, all claiming to value the community. Levine provocatively argues that there is no such thing as a singular community voice, meaning any claim of community representation is, by definition, illusory. He shows how community development is as much about constructing the idea of community as it is about the construction of physical buildings in poor neighborhoods.Constructing Community demonstrates how the nonprofit sector has become integral to urban policymaking, and the tensions and trade-offs that emerge when private nonprofits take on the work of public service provision.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 8 b/w illus. 5 tables. 4 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Accountability • activism • advisory board • Advocacy • Affordable Housing • behalf • Black Power Movement • Blockbusting • Blue Hill Avenue (MBTA station) • Board of Directors • Boston • Boston Redevelopment Authority • Budget • bureaucrat • Case study • Cities • City Manager • community consensus • community control • community development • Community development corporation • Community Development Planning • Community Foundation • community groups • community organization • Community Organizing • Community partnerships • Community Planning • conference call • Copyright • David Callahan • David Glick • Decision-Making • Democratic representation • Derek Hyra • Deval Patrick • development plan • disadvantage • Downtown Boston • Economic Development • Employment • ethnography • executive director • Expense • Fairmount Line • Ford Foundation • Funding • Gentrification • Governance • Government • government agency • Grassroots • Housing authority • housing development • Housing Policy • Johnson Amendment • Joint Venture • Josh Pacewicz • Katherine Einstein • Legislation • Legislator • local government • Low-Income Housing Tax Credit • Make a Difference • Mary Patillo • Mattapan • Mattapan (MBTA station) • Max Palmer • neighborhood association • neighborhood planning • Nicole Marwell • nonprofit diversity • Nonprofit Organization • operating support • Our Community • Outreach • participant • philanthropy • philanthropy in politics • Policy • Political Science • political voice • Politician • Politics • Poverty • Princeton University Press • Private Foundations • Private foundation (United States) • private sector • professionalization • program support • Public housing • Public Participation • Public Policy • public–private partnership • Public Transport • racial inequality • Rapid Rail • Redevelopment • Requirement • residence • Robert Vargas • Rob Reich • Sarah Reckhow • Service Provider • Slum • Small Business • Smart growth • Social Movement • Social Policy • Sociology • state-owned enterprise • State senator • Subsidized Housing • Subsidy • tax credit • Tax Reform Act of 1969 • The Boston Foundation • Thomas Menino • Uphams Corner • urban planner • urban planning • urban politics • Urban renewal • War on Poverty • welfare • Workforce • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20588-4 / 0691205884
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20588-5 / 9780691205885