Sharing the city community participation in urban management

"This book presents a comprehensive account of participation, both theoretically, and in practice. It draws on extensive case studies and experience from around the world and reviews current approaches and advances with a clear and unifying view."@en
"While the rate of urbanisation in the developing world has increased dramatically over the past 20 years, governments' capacity to support urban growth has, in many cases, failed to keep up with this trend. Non-governmental organisations working in the field have long advocated community management of the urban environment as the best solution to this problem, and there is now a growing consensus that the answer does, indeed, lie with local communities. Yet there is still little understanding of what constitutes meaningful and effective community participation, or how it may be achieved in suc."@en