Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City
Ostrander, Susan.
Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City Somerville, MA. [electronic resource] : - Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (190 p.)
Description based upon print version of record.
Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview of History, Demographics, and Politics; 3. Major Redevelopment, Community Involvement, and Shared Governance; 4. Old and New Immigrant Experiences, Today and Yesterday; 5. Immigrant Civic and Political Engagement; 6. Gentrification, Resident Displacement, and a Common Vision for the City's Future; 7. Extending Social Citizenship, Remaking City Governance; Notes; References; Index
Overcoming a past of deteriorating homes, empty storefronts, and corrupt city administrations, Somerville, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, today proudly defines itself as a longtime immigrant city, a historically blue collar town, and a hip new urban center with a progressive city government. In Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City, Susan Ostrander shows how beneath current high levels of engagement by Somerville residents lies a struggle about who should be the city's elected leaders and how they should conduct the city's affairs. It is a struggle waged bet.
9781439910146 (electronic bk.) 1439910146 (electronic bk.)
Community development--Massachusetts--Somerville.
Civic improvement--Massachusetts--Somerville.
City planning--Citizen participation.--Massachusetts--Somerville
Political participation--Massachusetts--Somerville.
Citizenship--Massachusetts--Somerville.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Somerville (Mass.)--Politics and government.
Electronic books.
HN80.S566O88 2013
307.1 307.1/4097444 307.14097444
Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City Somerville, MA. [electronic resource] : - Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (190 p.)
Description based upon print version of record.
Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview of History, Demographics, and Politics; 3. Major Redevelopment, Community Involvement, and Shared Governance; 4. Old and New Immigrant Experiences, Today and Yesterday; 5. Immigrant Civic and Political Engagement; 6. Gentrification, Resident Displacement, and a Common Vision for the City's Future; 7. Extending Social Citizenship, Remaking City Governance; Notes; References; Index
Overcoming a past of deteriorating homes, empty storefronts, and corrupt city administrations, Somerville, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, today proudly defines itself as a longtime immigrant city, a historically blue collar town, and a hip new urban center with a progressive city government. In Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City, Susan Ostrander shows how beneath current high levels of engagement by Somerville residents lies a struggle about who should be the city's elected leaders and how they should conduct the city's affairs. It is a struggle waged bet.
9781439910146 (electronic bk.) 1439910146 (electronic bk.)
Community development--Massachusetts--Somerville.
Civic improvement--Massachusetts--Somerville.
City planning--Citizen participation.--Massachusetts--Somerville
Political participation--Massachusetts--Somerville.
Citizenship--Massachusetts--Somerville.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Somerville (Mass.)--Politics and government.
Electronic books.
HN80.S566O88 2013
307.1 307.1/4097444 307.14097444