Overview
Promotes the concept of the inclusive city
Argues for the value of inclusivity in cities and the importance of local government in this endeavor
Emphasizes the need to shift from citizens’ rights to value creation to build a connection with urban economic development
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding the inclusive city. It clarifies the concept, dimensions and tensions of social and economic inclusion and outlines different forms of exclusion to which inclusion may be an antidote. The authors argue that as inclusion involves a range of inter-group and intragroup tensions, the unifying role of local government is crucial in making inclusion a reality for all, as is also the adoption of an inclusive and collaborative governance style. The book emphasizes the need to shift from citizens’ rights to value creation, thus building a connection with urban economic development. It demonstrates that inclusion is an opportunity to widen the local resource base, create collaborative synergies, and improve conditions for entrepreneurship, which are conducive to the creation of shared urban prosperity.
Reviews
"Inclusive growth is one of the most important ideas in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Cities are the instances in which social and economic inclusion matters most. Martin de Jong and Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, both known scholars in the field of urban planning, have written a most compelling book on inclusive cities. They show that economic inclusion should be given a high priority in the making of an inclusive city."
(Shunsuke Managi, Distinguished Professor & Director of the Urban Institute at Kyushu University, Japan, and Director of UNEP Inclusive Wealth Report)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko is an Adjunct Professor at Tampere University, Finland. His main research areas include local governance, local economic development and public sector innovations. He has authored several internationally distributed books, including The Political Economy of City Branding (2014) and New Urban Management (2015).
Martin de Jong is Scientific Director of the Erasmus Initiative for the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity and Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Fudan University, Shanghai. He has published various books and articles on urban and infrastructure development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Inclusive City
Book Subtitle: The Theory and Practice of Creating Shared Urban Prosperity
Authors: Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, Martin de Jong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61365-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61364-8Published: 22 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61367-9Published: 22 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61365-5Published: 21 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 131
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Politics, Economic Geography