Responses to Urban Economic ChangeBottomsUp Approaches

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Responses to Urban Economic Change-Bottoms-Up
Approaches
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Outline

• Planning Approaches
• Community Development Movement
• Urban Social Movements
• Labor Mobilization
• Radical Approaches

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Planning Approaches

• Linked development
• Inclusionary zoning, local-hire, subsidy
  accountability, etc.
• Equity/Advocacy Planning
• Paul Davidoff
• Social mobilization planning
• Saul Alinsky/Back of the Yards Neighborhood
  Council

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Community Development Movement

• Neighborhood/Community Organizing
• Community Development Corporations (CDCs)
• http//www.ncced.org/
• Issue-based organizing
• Comprehensive Community Initiatives/Community
  Building
• Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
  (http//www.dsni.org)
• Community-Based Regionalism

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Urban Social Movements

• Defending collective consumption
• Housing, services
• Affirming cultural identity
• Local media, communication, festivals
• Building political self-management
• Neighborhood organizing
• Whats missing?

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Labor mobilization

• Business unionism
• Early warning systems and worker buy-outs
• Social movement unionism
• Union cities campaign
• http//www.aflcio.org/unioncity
• High-road economic development
• http//www.workingforamerica.org
• Anti-globalization/globalization from below

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Radical Approaches

• Old-left and new left
• Civil rights/black power movement
• Socialism in one city
• Enterprise boards (UK)
• Progressive cities (U.S.)
• Non-Market Alternatives
• Local Exchange Trading Systems
• http//www.gmlets.u-net.com/
• http//www.ithacahours.org/
• Community Trusts (http//www.iceclt.org/clt/)
• Cooperative movement
• Mondragon (http//www.mondragon.mcc.es)

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Take-home messages

• Bottoms-up approaches build on social solidarity,
  advocacy and/or mobilization
• They have resulted in significant innovations in
  urban development strategies
• Stronger in opposition, tend to be weakened once
  vision is incorporated into more established
  institutions