Removing Unfreedoms : Citizens as Agents of Change in Urban Development
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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 groupsUrban & 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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