Social Innovations in the Urban Context (Paperback)

Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1: Social Innovation: A Sympathetic and Critical Interpretation.- Part II: Urban contexts for local innovations.- Chapter 3: "Everybody on Board? Opportunity Structures for Social Innovations in Munster".- Chapter 4: Inertia, Clearings, and Innovations in Malmo.- Chapter 5: Birmingham, Priority to Economics, Social Innovation at the Margins.- Chapter 6: Social Policies and Governance in Geneva: What about Social Innovation?.- Chapter 7: Milan, a City Lost in the Transition from the Growth Machine Paradigm Towards a Social Innovation Approach.- Chapter 8: Poor but Sexy? Berlin as a Context for Social Innovation.- Part III: Local Social Innovations.- Chapter 9: Social Innovations as Messages: Democratic Experimentation in Local Welfare Systems.- Chapter 10: Warsaw: Paving new ways for participation of mothers, fathers and children in local public and social life - The MaMa Foundation.- Chapter 11: Zagreb: Parents in Action - Innovative ways of support and policies for children, women and families.-Chapter 12: Amsterdam: Neighbourhood Stores for Education, Research, and Talent Development - the BOOT project.- Chapter 13: Lille: Co-production of housing in a major urban renewal district.- Chapter 14: Pamplona: Neighbourhood Children services - a grassroots and local council initiative.- Chapter 15: Berlin: Kreuzberg acts - entrepreneurship in the district.- Chapter 16: Milan: "We help you to help yourself". The project of the Fondazione Welfare Ambrosiano.- Chapter 17: Stockholm: Innovative ways of supporting children of single (lone) mothers.- Chapter 18: NijmEGEN: Work corporations - for the unemployed, by the unemployed.- Chapter 19: Birmingham: The Youth Employment and Enterprise Rehearsal project.- Chapter 20: Birmingham: A "locality approach" to combating worklessness.- Chapter 21: Munster: How Prevention Visits Improve Local Child Protection.- Chapter 22: BARCELONA: A citizen s agreement for an inclusive CITY.- Chapter 23: Bern: Integration guidelines.- Part IV: Conclusions.- Chapter 24: The Implicit Normative Assumptions of Social Innovation Research: Embracing the Dark Side.- Chapter 25: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Social Innovation.