Place, Community Development, and Social Capital

Bridger, Jeffrey C.; Alter, Theodore R.

doi:10.1080/15575330609490151

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“…Trust can create a social obligation, trusting someone engenders reciprocal trust. Commitment to the norm of social reciprocity can enhance a very specific and valuable form of trust (Bridger and Alter 2003). This is what Putnam (2000) calls social trust as a willingness to give people the benefit of the doubt.…”

Section: Social Trust and Confidence In Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Social Capital and Trust in Slum Areas: the Case of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Kassahun

2014

Urban Forum

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This study explores how social capital and socioeconomic variations in slum areas influence the fostering of social trust and confidence in the institutions. Through a multivariate analysis using 497 households in slum areas of Addis Ababa, the paper investigates how social capital dimensions and human and economic characteristics of the households are related to social trust and confidence in the institutions. It is shown that social trust and confidence in institutions are highly associated with increased participation in local associations and pattern of reciprocity among inhabitants. These findings provide qualified support for the systemic model of local social organization but challenge theories of social disorganization that predict lower levels of social capital in impoverished communities.

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Section: Social Trust and Confidence In Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Social Capital and Trust in Slum Areas: the Case of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Kassahun

2014

Urban Forum

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“…Meanwhile, works can help create a landscape by strengthening the place's identity. Especially in industrial communities with deep-rooted social capital accumulation, through mining the intersection between different groups and thus carrying out activities based on text, vitality and cohesion of communities can be enhanced [37]. During the process of reconstructing urban communities, through protection of landscape recorded in the text, special cultural value attached can be protected; a typical case of which is the reconstruction work to commemorate Biddy Mason [38].…”

Section: Text Representation and Place Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interpretation of 798: Changes in Power of Representation and Sustainability of Industrial Landscape

2015

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Against the background of economic transformation and urban renewal, the protection and sustainable development of urban industrial landscapes has become an important practical issue, and how to maintain the unique local culture of these landscapes is key to solving the problem. By integrating the concept of "layer" and regarding the landscape as text, this paper will investigate the representation of industrial landscapes and the process of changes in power represented by different actors through different texts from the perspective of representation. The paper selected Beijing 798 as the research area to explore the shaping of changes in the industrial landscape of 798 from a weapon manufacturing area to an arts district, creative industry park and the "pan 798" by the factory owners, government, management committee, artists, media and tourists through different presentation forms, revealing the game process of representation of powers among the coalition between artists, management committee and the government. The paper points out that in fact, the representation of industrial landscape by different actors through different texts is a process that continues to explore and define the value of landscape. However, we need to look at this when the value of the industrial landscape is no longer given by localized life practices, but rather depends on different actors to produce and reproduce the value of landscape by representation, and thereby affecting the sustainable development of industrial landscape.

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“…Even though individual reported preferences may not be influenced by design, the glue of social capital is place based extending the potential influence of community design on society. Much has been written on the evolution of the concept of social capital and its bonding and bridging properties (Putnam 2000, p 22;Paxton 1999;Agnitsch, Flora, and Ryan, 2006;Bridger & Alter, 2006). Measures of social capital have been generated at many levels: individual, neighborhood, municipal, and national.…”

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confidence: 99%