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Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City [electronic resource] : Somerville, MA.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781439910146 (electronic bk.)
  • 1439910146 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City : Somerville, MADDC classification:
  • 307.1 307.1/4097444 307.14097444
LOC classification:
  • HN80.S566O88 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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

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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