A city of one's own : blurring the boundaries between private and public / edited by Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jacques Carré, Romain Garbaye.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Body-Gendrot, Sophie
Carré, Jacques
Garbaye, Romain
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008], ©2008.
Subjects:
Citizens' associations > United States.
Citizens' associations > Great Britain.
Neighborhood government > United States.
Neighborhood government > Great Britain.
Community organization > United States.
Community organization > Great Britain.
Public-private sector cooperation > United States.
Public-private sector cooperation > Great Britain.
Community power > United States.
Community power > Great Britain.
Political participation > United States.
Political participation > Great Britain.
Physical Description:xii, 220 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 'Private' and 'public' in the extension of Georgian London's West End / Jacques Carré
  • Making an inclusive urbanism : New York City's World Trade Memorial / Robert A. Beauregard
  • The privatization of council-housing in Britain : the strange death of public sector housing? / David Fée
  • The governance of new communities in Britain, France and North America, 1815-2004 : the quest for the public interest? / Stéphane Sadoux, Frédéric Cantaroglou and Audrey Gloor
  • Gated communities : generic patterns in suburban landscapes? / Renaud Le Goix
  • From self-defence to citizenry involvement participation in law-and-order enforcement in the United States : private spheres and public space / Didier Combeau
  • The future of prison privatization in the United States / Franck Vindevogel
  • AIDS prevention by non-governmental organizations : inside the American and French responses / Laura Hobson Faure, Carla Dillard Smith, Gloria Lockett and Benjamin P. Bowser
  • Education management organizations and for-profit education, an overview, and a case-study : Philadelphia / Malie Montagutelli
  • 'We pay the rates!' : Catholic voluntary schools and Scottish school boards (1872-1918) / Géraldine Vaughan
  • 'To serve and to elect' : the women's local government society, Britain 1888-1918 / Myriam Boussahba-Bravard
  • The 'third way' and the governance of the social in Britain / Jérôme Tournadre-Plancq
  • Conclusion : Jane Jacobs revisited? / Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jacques Carré and Romain Garbaye.