Pathways through Crisis : Urban Risk and Public Culture
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0759111324
ISBN-13
9780759111325
Publisher
AltaMira Press
Imprint
AltaMira Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 16th, 2008
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
565 grams
Dimensions
23.90 x 16.10 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Urban communitiesPsychological theory & schools of thoughtUrban & municipal planning
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In Pathways through Crisis, Carl Maida describes how communities tend (and need) to develop "grass roots" solutions in responding to critical social problems.
When densely populated urban areas face severe crises—natural disasters, epidemics, sudden unemployment, massive immigration—they often find that established mechanisms cannot respond adequately to the problems. Carl Maida argues that solutions to these problems tend to be developed within the affected communities themselves. In Pathways through Crisis, he draws on his two decades of work in ethnography and with crisis centers in the Los Angeles area to study the kinds of informal organizations that arise at the grass-roots level in order to deal with severe crises. This ground-breaking examination of responses to urban disaster suggests how both informal and formal organizations can be developed to serve people under extreme duress.
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