%T Self Governance in the city: The role of citizen initiatives in organic area development
%A J.C. Wiegman
%X The concept of self-governance (SG) is gaining more attention as a reaction to traditional central and top-down planning and the need to incorporate the civil society more in the development of their environment. The main idea is that self-governmental networks can cope better with an increasingly complex, uncertain and changing society. In practice, a more participatory cooperation of citizens to the environment is observed. Concrete concepts that emerge from this are citizen initiatives and organic area development. In this thesis it is investigated how they relate to each other. It is concluded that citizen initiatives play an important role in redeveloping and improving the liveability. It is also concluded that organic area development will not substitute traditional planning, but it will only be efficient in situations that call upon the resources on the civil society.
%L theses_frw3095
%D 2016