Paternalism, Conflict, and Coproduction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Paternalism, Conflict, and Coproduction

   • Lawrence Susskind, Michael Elliott

   Pages 1-31

3. Copenhagen’s Black Quadrant

   • Janice Perlman, Hans Spiegel

   Pages 33-65

4. Case Studies of Citizen Action and Citizen Participation in Brussels, Covent Garden, Delft, and Camden

   • Donald Appleyard

   Pages 67-117

5. Citizen Action in Brussels: Some Comments

   • Jean-François Lejeune, René Schoonbrodt

   Pages 119-122

6. Docklands and Coventry

   • Hans Spiegel, Janice Perlman

   Pages 123-153

7. The Voter Initiative as a Form of Citizen Participation in Swiss Transportation Policy

   • Chester Hartman

   Pages 155-174

8. Transportation Users’ Movements in Paris in the 1970s

   • Chester Hartman

   Pages 175-200

9. Transportation Users’ Movements in Paris: Some Comments

   • Jeffrey Sutter

   Pages 201-204

10. Citizen Action and Participation in Madrid

    • Janice Perlman

    Pages 205-235

11. Fostering Effective Citizen Participation

    • Marc Draisen

    Pages 237-287

12. Coproducing Urban Renewal in the Netherlands

    • David Godschalk, John Zeisel

    Pages 289-341

13. Citizen Participation in the Netherlands: Some Comments

    • Frans Vonk

    Pages 343-347

14. Epilogue

    • Lawrence Susskind, Michael Elliott

    Pages 349-353

15. Back Matter

    Pages 355-359

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A research team from the United States has completed an examination of citizen participation experiments in seven European countries. The team included Donald Appleyard, Marc Draisen, David Godschalk, Chester Hartman, Janice Perlman, Hans Spiegel, John Zeisel, and ourselves. This book is a product of our joint efforts. Our studies are aimed at summarizing and sharing what can be learned from recent European efforts to enhance the effectiveness of local government through increased public involvement in the organization and management of public services and urban redevelopment. Almost a year was spent assembling the team, developing a shared framework for analysis and identifying appropriate case­ study cities. European and American public officials and citizen activists helped us assess the potential impact of such a study on current practice. A second year was spent visiting the European cities and preparing the case-study drafts. Finally, team members gathered in Washington, D. C. , with fifty American and European public officials, citizen activists, and scholars. A two-day symposium provided an exciting opportunity to present preliminary research findings and encourage an exchange of ideas between researchers, activists, and policymakers. The final versions of the case studies that appear in this book, along with several commentaries by symposium participants, are written especially for city officials and citizen activists. We have tried to translate the results of our scholarly inquiry into pragmatic suggestions for officials and activists.

• Action
• Europe
• conflict
• development
• experiment
• learning
• local government
• management
• organization
• organizations
• production
• research
• service
• state
• voter

• Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

  Lawrence Susskind

• Public Disputes Program, Harvard Center for Negotiation, Cambridge, USA

  Lawrence Susskind

• Joint Center for Urban Studies of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

  Michael Elliott

• Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

  Michael Elliott

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