Will culture increasingly become a constellation of highly profitable niche markets, only accessible to the better‐off middle class? And will it therefore join the movement of market fundamentalism that, in many Western societies, has abandoned social housing, emancipatory education and public...

Mainstream urban regeneration policy operates in fragmented policy domains—physical, economic or technocratic—which paralyse the creative action potentialities of urban and neighbourhood development. Integrated Area Development strategies based on social innovation in development agendas and...

This largely methodological paper focuses on how to define the social economy and its governance at the local and especially the urban neighbourhood level. A distinction is made between essentialist and holistic definitions. The second section appraises the potential contribution of various...