Removing Unfreedoms : Citizens as Agents of Change in Urban Development

Name: Removing Unfreedoms
Brand: Practical Action Publishing
SKU: 9781853396069
Price: 5250 KES
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ISBN: 9781853396069

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1853396060

ISBN-13 9781853396069

Publisher Practical Action Publishing

Imprint Practical Action Publishing

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 15th, 2005

Print length 280 Pages

Weight 483 grams

Dimensions 24.70 x 17.70 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Social groups Urban & municipal planning

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The authors argue that good governance should be not an end, but the means of delivering greater freedom to the inhabitants of a city. Past measures of successful urban development have related to efficiency or the provision of services, a new Freedom Approach will engage with local priorities and promote local initiatives.

This book takes Amartya Sen''s concept of development as freedom and applies it, for the first time, to the challenges of urban development across the globe. Cities are the crucial battleground for the future: they can either become settlements of intense poverty and community conflict or the centres of social, economic and political development. The authors argue that good governance should be not an end, but the means of delivering greater freedom to the inhabitants of a city. Past measures of successful urban development have related to efficiency or the provision of services -- indicators that measure the activities of agencies. A new "Freedom Approach" will engage with local priorities and promote local initiatives, allowing city dwellers themselves to determine how a well-functioning city is to be defined.

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