Social Innovations in the Urban Context

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Social Innovation: A Sympathetic and Critical Interpretation....Pages 3-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Urban Governance and Social Innovations....Pages 21-44
Everybody on Board? Opportunity Structures for Social Innovations in Münster....Pages 45-64
Inertia, Clearings, and Innovations in Malmö....Pages 65-81
Birmingham, Priority to Economics, Social Innovation at the Margins....Pages 83-96
Social Policies and Governance in Geneva: What About Social Innovation?....Pages 97-124
Milan: A City Lost in the Transition from the Growth Machine Paradigm Towards a Social Innovation Approach....Pages 125-142
Poor but Sexy? Berlin as a Context for Social Innovation....Pages 143-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Social Innovations as Messages: Democratic Experimentation in Local Welfare Systems....Pages 161-180
Warsaw: Paving New Ways for Participation of Mothers, Fathers, and Children in Local Public and Social Life—The MaMa Foundation....Pages 181-188
Zagreb: Parents in Action—Innovative Ways of Support and Policies for Children, Women and Families....Pages 189-197
Amsterdam: Neighbourhood Stores for Education, Research, and Talent Development—The BOOT Project....Pages 199-204
Lille Metropolis: Co-production of Housing in a Major Urban Renewal District....Pages 205-211
Pamplona: Neighbourhood Children Services—A Grassroots and Local Council Initiative....Pages 213-218
Berlin: Kreuzberg Acts—Entrepreneurship in the District....Pages 219-225
Milan: “We Help You to Help Yourself”—The Project of the Fondazione Welfare Ambrosiano....Pages 227-233
Stockholm: Innovative Ways of Supporting Children of Single (Lone) Mothers....Pages 235-242
Nijmegen: Work Corporations—for the Unemployed, by the Unemployed....Pages 243-249
Birmingham: The Youth Employment and Enterprise Rehearsal Project....Pages 251-255
Birmingham: A “Locality Approach” to Combating Worklessness....Pages 257-263
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Münster: How Prevention Visits Improve Local Child Protection....Pages 265-271
Barcelona: A Citizen’s Agreement for an Inclusive City....Pages 273-279
Bern: Integration Guidelines....Pages 281-289
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
The Implicit Normative Assumptions of Social Innovation Research: Embracing the Dark Side....Pages 293-302
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Social Innovation....Pages 303-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-313