Networked Urbanism : Social Capital in the City [ISBN : 9780754672012] [Copyright Year : 2008] [Hardcover]

Despite considerable interest in social capital amongst urban policy makers and academics alike, there is currently little direct focus on its urban dimensions. In this volume leading urban researchers from the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Australia, Italy and France explore the nature of social networks and the significance of voluntary associations for contemporary urban life. Networked Urbanism recognizes that there is currently a sense of crisis in the cohesion of the city which has led to public attempts to encourage networking and the fostering of 'social capital'. However, the contributors collectively demonstrate how new kinds of 'networked urbanism' associated with ghettoization, suburbanization and segregation have broken from the kind of textured urban communities that existed in the past. This has generated new forms of exclusionary social capital, which fail to significantly resolve the problems of poor residents, whilst strengthening the position of the advantaged. Grounded in theoretical reflection and empirical research, Networked Urbanism will be of interest to scholars and students of sociology, geography and urban studies, as well as to policy makers. Social Capital And Networked Urbanism / Talja Blokland And Mike Savage -- Social Capital And The End Of Urbanism -- The End To Urbanism : How The Changing Spatial Structure Of Cities Affected Its Social Capital Potentials / Talja Blokland And Douglas Rae -- The Flowing Enclave And The Misanthropy Of Networked Affluence / Rowland G. Atkinson -- Place, Space And Race : Monopolistic Group Closure And The Dark Side Of Social Capital / Bruce D. Haynes And Jesus Hernandez -- Networks And Urban Social Capital -- A New Place, A New Network? : Social Capital Effects Of Residential Relocation For Poor Women / Alexandra M. Curley -- The Weakness Of Weak Ties : Social Capital To Get Ahead Among The Urban Poor In Rotterdam And Amsterdam / Talja Blokland And Floris Noordhoff -- Middle Class Neighbourhood Attachment In Paris And Milan : Partial Exit And Profound Rootedness / Alberta Andreotti And Patrick Le Galès -- Urban Associations And Social Capital -- Gardening With A Little Help From Your (middle Class) Friends : Bridging Social Capital Across Race And Class In A Mixed Neighbourhood / Talja Blokland -- Political Participation, Social Networks And The City / Mike Savage, Gindo Tampubolon And Alan Warde -- Conserving The Past Of A Quiet Suburb : Urban Politics, Association Networks And Speaking For 'the Community' / Fiona Devine, Peter Halfpenny, Nadia Joanne Britton And Rosemary Mellor -- Social Capital And The Formation Of London's Middle Classes / Tim Butler. Edited By Talja Blokland, Mike Savage. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Figures 8 List of Tables 10 List of Contributors 12 Preface 14 1 Social Capital and Networked Urbanism 16 PART 1: SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE END OF URBANISM 36 2 The End to Urbanism: How the Changing Spatial Structure of Cities Affected its Social Capital Potentials 38 3 The Flowing Enclave and the Misanthropy of Networked Affluence 56 4 Place, Space and Race: Monopolistic Group Closure and the Dark Side of Social Capital 74 PART 2: NETWORKS AND URBAN SOCIAL CAPITAL 98 5 A New Place, a New Network? Social Capital Effects of Residential Relocation for Poor Women 100 6 The Weakness of Weak Ties: Social Capital to Get Ahead Among the Urban Poor in Rotterdam and Amsterdam 120 7 Middle Class Neighbourhood Attachment in Paris and Milan: Partial Exit and Profound Rootedness 142 PART 3: URBAN ASSOCIATIONS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL 160 8 Gardening with a Little Help from Your (Middle Class) Friends: Bridging Social Capital Across Race and Class in a Mixed Neighbourhood 162 9 Political Participation, Social Networks and the City 186 10 Conserving the Past of a Quiet Suburb: Urban Politics, Association Networks and Speaking for ‘the Community’ 212 11 Social Capital and the Formation of London’s Middle Classes 232 Index 252 A 252 B 252 C 252 D 252 E 252 F 252 G 253 H 253 I 253 L 253 M 253 N 254 P 254 R 254 S 255 T 256 U 256 V 256 W 256 Y 256 In spite of considerable interest in social capital amongst urban policy makers and academics alike, there is currently little direct focus on its urban dimensions. In this volume, leading urban researchers from the Netherlands, the UK, USA, Australia, Italy and France explore the nature of social networks and the significance of voluntary associations for contemporary urban life."Networked Urbanism" shows that there is currently a sense of crisis in the cohesion of the city which has led to public attempts to encourage networking, and the fostering of 'social capital'. However, the contributors collectively demonstrate how changing forms of 'networked urbanism' have broken from the kind of textured urban communities that existed in the past, revealing a need to recognize that new forms of exclusionary social capital are being generated, which fail to significantly resolve the problems of poor residents, whilst strengthening the position of the advantaged. Grounded in theoretical reflection and empirical research, "Networked Urbanism" will be controversial, and will be of interest to scholars and students of sociology, geography, and urban studies, as well as to policy makers The concept of social capital has gone from being an interesting idea at the turn of the 21st century to being a policy 'doxa' a decade later. Any supposed 'lack' of social capital is now a matter for concern, requiring research and appropriate policy intervention. This book argues that the city poses a major challenge to this agenda