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Facing the Great Recession in Deprived Urban Areas

How Civic Capacity Contributes to Neighborhood Resilience

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ID12766077
AuthorsMarc Parés (0000-0002-0487-5264, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, corresponding author), Ismael Blanco (0000-0003-2191-5712, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona), Charlotte Fernández (Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona)
Year2018
Volume17
Issue1
Pages65-86
Publication date2018-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCity and Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1535-6841 • E-ISSN: 1540-6040
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1111/cico.12287
OpenAlexW2795463491
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited47

Research suggests that some communities are more resilient than others in the face of the same external stress. Both the local effects of and local responses to the 2008 financial collapse and economic recession have been geographically variegated. Drawing upon two case studies in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona (Spain), this paper aims to understand why some historically deprived neighborhoods are proving more resilient than others in facing the effects of the Great Recession. We conclude that neighborhood resilience, strongly influenced by the precrash context and by socially produced conditions of vulnerability, operates in each community according to at least three context–specific and interdependent factors: built environment, social capital, and civic capacity. We focus on civic capacity—understood as neighborhood ability to mobilize different sectors of the community to act in a coordinated fashion around matters of community–wide importance—and demonstrate that it is a significant resource contributing to neighborhood resilience

Adaptive capacity · Context (archaeology · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Great recession · Interdependence · Labour economics · Metropolitan area · Political science · Psychological resilience · Recession · Resilience (materials science · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Disaster Management and Resilience · Health disparities and outcomes · Psychology · Regional resilience and development · Social Psychology

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