Description
"Localism" has been deployed in recent debates over planning law as an anodyne, grassroots way to shape communities into sustainable, human-scale neighborhoods. But "local" is a moving category, with contradictory, nuanced dimensions. Reconsidering Localism brings together new scholarship from leading academics in Europe and North America to develop a theoretically-grounded critique and definition of the new localism, and how it has come to shape urban governance and urban planning.
Moving beyond the UK, this book examines localism and similar shifts in planning policy throughout Europe, and features essays on localism and place-making, sustainability, social cohesion, and citizen participation in community institutions. It explores how debates over localism and citizen control play out at the neighborhood, institutional and city level, and has come to effect the urban landscape throughout Europe. Reconsidering Localism is a current, vital addition to planning scholarship.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction, Simin Davoudi, Ali Madanipour; Part 1 The local in localism; Chapter 2 Localism: Institutions, Territories, Representations, Ali Madanipour, Simin Davoudi; Chapter 3 Paradoxes on Local Planning in Contested Societies, Frank Gaffikin; Chapter 4 Localism Agendas and Post-political Trends: Neighbourhood Policy Trajectories in Denver, Susan E. Clarke; Chapter 5 Localism and the ‘Post-social’ Governmentality, Simin Davoudi, Ali Madanipour; Part 2 Localism and democracy; Chapter 6 Civic Capacity, Place Governance and Progressive Localism, Patsy Healey; Chapter 7 The Promise of Democracy? Civic Enterprise, Localism and the Transformation of Democratic Capitalism, Hendrik Wagenaar, Jurgen van der Heijden; Chapter 8 The Community’s Capacity to Plan: The Disproportionate Requirements of the New English Neighbourhood Planning Initiative, Elizabeth Brooks Susannah Gunn, Geoff Vigar; Chapter 9 Is Small Really Beautiful? The Legitimacy of Neighbourhood Planning, Paul Cowie, Simin Davoudi; Part 3 Localism and sustainability; Chapter 10 Avoiding Collapse: An Agenda for De-growth and Re-localisation, William E. Rees; Chapter 11 ‘Localism’ and the Environment: Effective Re-scaling for Sustainability Transition?, Richard Cowell; Chapter 12 Localism, Scale and Place in Claims for Sustainable Urbanism: Moving beyond the Idealist and Materialist, Andrew Hoolachan, Mark Tewdwr-Jones; Chapter 13 Localism and Rural Development, Mark Shucksmith, Hilary Talbot; Chapter 14 Epilogue: Promises and Pitfalls of Localism, Ali Madanipour, Simin Davoudi;
