The Inclusive City: Approaches to combat urban poverty and social exclusion in Europe
Organization:
European Urban Knowledge Network
The European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) presented at the beginning of the Italian Presidency of the EU a report on the socio-economic and spatial dimensions of poverty in Europe. The study provides an overview of urban poverty in the European context and analyses good practices in various European cities.
Year:
2014
Format:
Research report
Case study
Categories:
Government
International CED
Policy Development & Advocacy
Regional Development
Urban Development
Source:
Org
Theme:
This new report from Good Jobs First offers policy recommendations to reduce job poaching, sprawl, and loss of public resources induced by intra-regional competition. Through tax-base sharing and institutionalization of procedures of cooperation, neighboring localities can expand resources available for public goods, such as education, from which the entire region can profit.
What is a multi-stakeholder co-op?
In the absence of epistemological and conceptual advances with strong ontological foundations, Dash argues, SSE cannot go very far in framing discourses and in engaging with the bigger picture, as an alternative to the crises-ridden dominant economic paradigm.