soziale stadt - bundestransferstelle
besonderem Entwicklungsbedarf - Soziale Stadt"
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There is broad consensus in the Länder and virtually all Socially Integrative City districts that efficient implementation of programme objectives requires cooperative political and administrative structures as the basis for realizing measures, activities and mobilization and revitalization processes deemed necessary by the neighbourhood. Almost all participating cities and municipalities regard neighbourhood management as a critical tool for handling the tasks and reaching the targets associated with integrative district development. However, they all interpret and utilize this tool in a different manner. This is reflected not only in the labels (district, area or neighbourhood management), but more emphatically in the various organizational forms employed, ranging from individual officials equipped with specific authority to complex structures involving different levels of municipal control and operation.
From an academic perspective, neighbourhood management is a neighbourhood policy tool which "seeks to distance itself manifestly from previous approaches to poverty and concentrate spatially in specific urban districts."(1) Implementation of the Combating Poverty Programme in Hamburg illustrates that neighbourhood management should "create an environment for sustainable development processes at neighbourhood level. This goes far beyond simple redevelopment and community social work." Town planners associate neighbourhood management with the "cautious urban renewal" of the 1980's. Community developers have seen a shift in their neighbourhood-management responsibilities away from "purely supervisory district-based social work and welfare" towards organizing local interests and pooling municipal resources.(2) To summarize, neighbourhood management is a suitable means for assisting installation of self-sustaining structures in disadvantaged districts.
(1) On this and the following: Monika Alisch, "Stadtteilmanagement: Zwischen politischer Strategie und Beruhigungsmittel", Alisch (Ed.), Stadtteilmanagement. Voraussetzungen und Chancen für die soziale Stadt , Opladen 1998, p. 12 ff. 
(2) Cf. Wolfgang Hinte, "Bewohner ermutigen, aktivieren, organisieren. Methoden und Strukturen für ein effektives Stadteilmanagement", Alisch (Ed.), Stadtteilmanagement. Voraussetzungen und Chancen , p. 156 f.
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Translated from: Soziale Stadt - Strategien für die Soziale Stadt, Erfahrungen und Perspektiven – Umsetzung des Bund-Länder-Programms „Stadtteile mit besonderem Entwicklungsbedarf – die soziale Stadt", Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik 2003 |
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