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Removing unfreedoms : citizens as agents of change in urban development 🔍
Jane Samuels; Intermediate Technology Development Group Practical Action Publishing, London, England, 2005
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* Applies the work of Amartya Sen to urban development
* Sets the agenda for new urban development policy
In this book Amartya Sen’s concept of "Development as Freedom" is applied for the first time to the challenges of urban governance across the globe.
Removing Unfreedoms reevaluates existing approaches to urban development by assessing degrees of freedom rather than relying exclusively on measuring poverty.
While early models of urbanization focussed on economic valuation, service provision, or city design, here the concern is directed toward the individual citizen’s ability to live the life he or she values. Thus, by identifying and then removing "unfreedoms," global urban strategies ensure the citizen’s role as an active agent of change.
Removing Unfreedoms documents sessions with Amartya Sen, working in collaboration with the authors and many others, and provides a shared policy framework for project design in urban development and governance programs.
This book is intended for planners, policymakers, and activists in urban development, working in universities and in international and in local development agencies.
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Samuels, Jane; Intermediate Technology Development Group
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Jane Samuels, Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka
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Romi Khosla; Jane Samuels
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edited by Jane Samuels
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ITDG Publishing
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IT Publications
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London: ITDG
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United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
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Warwickshire, 2005
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July 2006
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US, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-184) and index
Alternative description
This book takes Amartya Sen's concept of development as freedom and applies it, for the first time, to the challenges of urban development across the globe. Cities are the crucial battleground for the future: they can either become settlements of intense poverty and community conflict or the centres of social, economic and political development. The authors argue that good governance should be not an end, but the means of delivering greater freedom to the inhabitants of a city. Past measures of successful urban development have related to efficiency or the provision of services -- indicators that measure the activities of agencies. A new "Freedom Approach" will engage with local priorities and promote local initiatives, allowing city dwellers themselves to determine how a well-functioning city is to be defined.
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"Removing Unfreedoms documents sessions with Amartya Sen, working in collaboration with the authors and many others, and provides a shared policy framework for project design in urban development and governance programmes."--BOOK JACKET
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xvi, 188 p. : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
date open sourced
2023-06-28
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