TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ostrander,Susan
TI  - Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City: Somerville, MA
SN  - 9781439910146 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HN80.S566O88 2013 
U1  - 307.1307.1/4097444307.14097444 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Philadelphia PA
PB  - Temple University Press
KW  - Community development
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Somerville
KW  - Civic improvement
KW  - City planning
KW  - Citizen participation
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Somerville (Mass.)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview of History, Demographics, and Politics; 3. Major Redevelopment, Community Involvement, and Shared Governance; 4. Old and New Immigrant Experiences, Today and Yesterday; 5. Immigrant Civic and Political Engagement; 6. Gentrification, Resident Displacement, and a Common Vision for the City's Future; 7. Extending Social Citizenship, Remaking City Governance; Notes; References; Index
N2  - Overcoming a past of deteriorating homes, empty storefronts, and corrupt city administrations, Somerville, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, today proudly defines itself as a longtime immigrant city, a historically blue collar town, and a hip new urban center with a progressive city government. In Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City, Susan Ostrander shows how beneath current high levels of engagement by Somerville residents lies a struggle about who should be the city's elected leaders and how they should conduct the city's affairs. It is a struggle waged bet
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