Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City
Somerville, MA
Ostrander, Susan.
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Electronic books.
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Philadelphia PA
Temple University Press
2013
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eng
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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.
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
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Community development
Massachusetts
Somerville
Civic improvement
Massachusetts
Somerville
City planning
Massachusetts
Somerville
Citizen participation
Political participation
Massachusetts
Somerville
Citizenship
Massachusetts
Somerville
Somerville (Mass.)
Politics and government
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
HN80.S566O88 2013
307.1 307.1/4097444 307.14097444
Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City : Somerville, MA
Ostrander, Susan
Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press,c2013
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