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Author Holt-Jensen, Arild

Title Urban sustainability and governance : new changes in Nordic-Baltic housing policies / Arild Holt-Jensen and Eric Pollock, editors
Published New York : Nova Science Publishers, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 349 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Urban sustainability andgovernance:new challenges innordic-baltic housing policies -- urban sustainability and governance: new challenges in nordic-baltic housing policies -- contents -- list of figures and figure texts -- list of tables -- preface -- acknowledgments -- list of authors -- abbreviations used in the text -- introduction: northern europe -between the east and west -- structure of the book -- references -- housing policies, path dependencies andpresent challenges -- 1.1. introduction: the urban future -- 1.2. the housing challenges
1.3. APPLIED THEORY1.4 PHASES OF HOUSING POLICY EVOLUTIONIN THE NORDIC AND THE BALTIC COUNTRIES -- 1.5. CHALLENGES CAUSED BY GLOBALISATIONAND ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING -- REFERENCES -- HOUSING IN THE SUSTAINABLE CITY �ISSUES FOR AN INTEGRATED APPROACH1 -- 2.1. SUSTAINABILITY -- CLARIFYING THE CONCEPTS -- 2.2 HOUSING IN THE SUSTAINABLE CITY -- 2.3. MAIN CHALLENGES IN THE HOUSING SECTOR �AND THE NEED FOR AN INTEGRATED APPROACH -- State of Affairs -- Sustainable Development: What is Good Enough? -- Processes of Change -- 2.4. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES
GOVERNANCE AND SOCIAL CAPITAL AS TOOLS FORNEIGHBOURHOOD REGENERATION3.1. WHAT IS GOVERNANCE? -- 3.2. WHAT IS SOCIAL CAPITAL? -- 3.3. ACTIONS FOR SOCIAL CAPITAL IN GOVERNANCE -- 3.4. GOVERNANCE ARRANGEMENTS INNEIGHBOURHOOD REGENERATION -- 3.5. OBSTACLES TO GOVERNANCE -- 3.6. Effective Neighbourhood Governance -- Improving Residents� Ability to Give Voice -- Governance Arrangements for Handling Conflicts among Residents -- Linking Formal and Informal Activities into Governance Arrangements -- 3.7. VALUE-CREATION -- 3.8. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES
PLANNING THEORIES AND DEVELOPMENTPRACTICES. PAST DEPENDENCIES CONTRANEW IDEOLOGY: IMPACT OF PLANNING FORSUSTAINABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT4. 1. INTRODUCTION -- 4.2. DEVELOPMENT AND REPLACEMENT OF PLANNING PARADIGMS -- 4. 3. REGIONAL PLANNING AND HOUSINGDEVELOPMENT DURING THE STATE SOCIALISM -- 4.3.1. The Heritage of Soviet Planning: Theory -- 4.3.2. The Consequences of the Soviet Planning: Practice -- 4.4 DEVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION OF PLANNING AFTER SOCIALISM -- 4.4.1. Application of New Legislation -- 4.4.2. Past-Dependencies of the Soviet Era and New Planning System
4.5. HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ANDIMPACT OF PLANNING � ESTONIAN CASE4.5.1. Data Set and the Classification of Centres -- 4.5.2. Progress of Housing Construction during the Soviet Period -- 4.5.3. Transitional Collapse of Housing Constructionand the Start of Urban Sprawl -- 4.5.4. The Impact of Development Practices on Sustainability of Housing -- 4.6. CONCLUSION -- The Planning Cultures of Soviet and Post-Soviet Pragmatism -- REFERENCES -- THE NORDIC STATES � INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCES -- HOUSING AND SOCIAL COHESION, NATIONALCONSIDERATIONS � SWEDEN
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Housing policy -- Scandinavia
Housing policy -- Baltic States
Sustainable urban development -- Scandinavia
Sustainable urban development -- Baltic States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
Housing policy
Sustainable urban development
Baltic States
Scandinavia
Form Electronic book
Author Pollock, Eric
ISBN 9781613241875
1613241879