Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy

by Archon Fung

Book Overview

Every month in every neighborhood in Chicago, residents, teachers, school principals, and police officers gather to deliberate about how to improve their schools and make their streets safer. Residents of poor neighborhoods participate as much or more as those from wealthy ones. All voices are heard. Since the meetings began more than a dozen years ago, they have led not only to safer streets but also to surprising improvements in the city's schools...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691126089
• ISBN13: 9780691126081
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"