LR>>The backdrop for the Mueller development could be local governance and the tools it uses to distribute and redistribute resources. Some of the tools are planning and zoning, assessing and taxing, providing services. These have become 'structural' aspects of governance with their own characteristics/traits and methods of including and excluding (i.e., controlling interactions). Civic and political engagement, or lack thereof, are types of interactions open to some and closed to others.
LR>>The backdrop for the Mueller development could be local governance and the tools it uses to distribute and redistribute resources. Some of the tools are planning and zoning, assessing and taxing, providing services. These have become 'structural' aspects of governance with their own characteristics/traits and methods of including and excluding (i.e., controlling interactions). Civic and political engagement, or lack thereof, are types of interactions open to some and closed to others.
ReplyDeleteyou might want to read:
ReplyDeleteSense of Community and Neighbourhood Form: An Assessment of the Social Doctrine of New Urbanism
Talen, Emily
Urban Stud, Jul 1999; vol. 36: pp. 1361-1379
http://usj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/36/8/1361