Print Email Facebook Twitter Exemplary Urban Practitioners in Neighbourhood Renewal: Survival of the Fittest and the Fitting Title Exemplary Urban Practitioners in Neighbourhood Renewal: Survival of the Fittest and the Fitting Author Van der Pennen, A.W. Van Bortel, G.A. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Real Estate and Housing Date 2015-06-06 Abstract Often institutional solutions such as structures and organisations are seen as best practices in neighbourhood renewal. Using empirical case study data from the Netherlands and the UK, this paper demonstrates that there should be more attention for the role of individual urban practitioners. The relevance of this conclusion goes beyond the domain of neighbourhood regeneration alone. Due to the new government policy paradigms (e.g. Big Society/Participation Society), welfare reforms are introduced that combine severe austerity measures with more responsibilities for individual citizens and cross-sectorial partnerships between institutions. This post-crisis participation society calls for individuals that are able to ‘make a difference’ by bridging the gap between the systems of government agencies and other institutions, and the lifeworld of residents. But what are the characteristics and working methods of highly effective ‘exemplary urban practitioners’? This paper explores the characteristics of these practitioners by analysing empirical data from neighbourhood renewal case studies using Habermas system/lifeworld concept. Subject governanceurban practitionersneighbourhood renewalsystemlifeworld To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4707c482-a714-4c33-82e7-27022eb3a741 Publisher Springer ISSN 0957-8765 Source https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-015-9600-4 Source VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2015 The Author(s)This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Files PDF vanBortel_2015.pdf 422.95 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4707c482-a714-4c33-82e7-27022eb3a741/datastream/OBJ/view