This edited volume is a lively and timely appraisal of "ordinary cities" as they struggle to implement creative redevelopment and economic growth strategies to enhance their global competitiveness. The book is concerned with new and often unanticipated inequalities that have emerged from this new city movement. As chronicled, such cities - Cleveland (USA), Heidelberg (Germany), Oxford (UK), Groningen (Netherlands), Montpellier (France), but also cities from the Global South such as Cachoeira (Brazil) and Delhi (India) - now experience new and unexpected realities of poverty, segregation, neglect of the poor, racial and ethnic strife. To date planners, academics, and policy analysts have paid little attention to the connections between this drive in these cities to be more creative and the inequalities that have followed. This book, keenly making these connections, highlights the limited visions that have been applied in this planning drive to make these cities more creative and ultimately more globally competitive
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Chapter 1: Civil Society Concepts, Challenges, and Contexts: An Introduction to Helmut Anheier's Festschrift -- Chapter 2: Scholarship, Leadership, and Institution Building: Helmut Anheier and the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sectors -- Part I: Developing Concepts and Theoretical Frames -- Chapter 3: The Theory of the Public Sphere Revisited -- Chapter 4: Dealing with Civility: Citizenship, Real Citizens and the Science of Civil Society -- Chapter 5: Successful Failure: Functions and Dysfunctions of Civil Society Organizations -- Chapter 6: Social Innovation – Not Without Civil Society -- Chapter 7: The Hiding Hand, Persistent Fragile Action, and Sustainable Development -- Chapter 8: Using the System of National Accounts Framework to Measure Social Impacts of Social Economy Institutions -- Chapter 9: From Anheier's Civil Society Diamond to a Principled Fundraising Jurisprudence for Civil Society -- Chapter 10: Legitimizing Foundations: Functions, Expectations, and Regulation -- Chapter 11: Foundations and Democracy: The Changing Case for the Defense -- Chapter 12: Foundations: Is Measurement the Enemy of Creativity -- Part II: Charting Global Challenges -- Chapter 13: Planetary Politics: Reviving the Spirit of the Concept "Global Civil Society" -- Chapter 14: Global Civil Society in Retreat: Is It Cyclical or Existential -- Chapter 15: The Offensive Against Global Civil Society: Diffusion of NGO Restrictions -- Chapter 16: Civil Society Actors in International Cultural Diplomacy -- Chapter 17: Arts, Cultural Participation, and Democracy. Analyzing the Indicator Framework on Culture and Democracy -- Chapter 18: Global Civil Religion -- Chapter 19: Civil Society and the Problem of Knowledge -- Chapter 20: The Dark Side of the Nonprofit Sector: Polarization in Contemporary Society -- Part III: Changing Contexts: Local and Regional Case Studies -- Chapter 21: Civil Society Encroachment in Non-liberal Democracies: The Case of Israel -- Chapter 22: Policy Controversies and Challenges for Organized Civil Society: The Case of England Before the COVID-19 Crisis -- Chapter 23: Transformation of Civil Society Organization Functions in Modern Russia -- Chapter 24: The Skeptic Who Came in from the Cold? The Formation of a Climate-skeptic Alliance in Germany -- Chapter 25: The Recent Evolution of Foundations in France -- Chapter 26: Pluralism and Inequality: Brief Reflections on Philanthropic Foundations and their Study in the United States -- Chapter 27: Businesses as Civil Society Actors? An Engagement and Cooperation Analysis Based on German Company Data -- Chapter 28: Scenarios for Civil Society Impact in Norway -- Chapter 29: Women in the German Nonprofit Sector: Working Conditions and Promotion Opportunities -- Chapter 30: Los Angeles and the State of the Nonprofit Sector: A Review of Findings and Examination of Three Theses -- Appendix: Helmut K. Anheier's publications -- Index.
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"Today is a new metropolitan age and for the first time ever more people live in cities than they do anywhere else. As cities strengthen their international and cultural influence, the global world is acted out most articulately in the world's urban hubs - through its diverse cultures, broad networks and innovative styles of governance. Looking at the city through its internal dynamics, the book examines how governance and cultural policy play out in a national and international framework. Making a truly global contribution to the literature, editors Isar and Anheier bring together a truly international and highly-respected collection of scholars. In doing so, they skilfully steer debates beyond the city as an economic powerhouse, to cover issues that fully comprehend a city's cultural dynamics and its impact on policy including alternative economies, creativity, migration, diversity, sustainability, education and urban planning. Innovative in its approach and content, this book is ideal for students, scholars and researchers interested in sociology, urban studies, cultural studies, and public policy."--Publisher's website
