relation: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3358/
title: New Towns & community-based initiatives: A study of the performance of community-based initiatives in New Towns in the Netherlands
creator: Saëz, Agathe
description: New Towns in the Netherlands are cities built rapidly and from scratch in the last half of the 20th century. Along their development specific issues appeared that participate in the deterioration of socio-spatial structure of these cities. With the decline of the welfare state an increasing number of community initiatives emerge to provide goods and services to the communities around them. In doing so those initiatives can participate in the process of urban revitalization which leads local governments to support these initiatives in their development. The question this thesis raises is how community initiatives are performing in Dutch New Towns as these cities present their own specific context and issues. To answer that question a comparative case-study analysis was adopted as part of an exploratory approach including leadership and social capital as two dimensions affecting performance. The results show that a certain leadership style is apparent (transformational organizer) in all cases despite some variations and that all initiatives developed social capital in order to develop and succeed. Different types of social capital have been observed in all cases in order to gain resources and participated in the achievements of the initiatives. In conclusion, the specific context of New Towns plays a role in the development of initiatives as it affects their raison d’être, objectives and activities.
date: 2020
type: Thesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3358/1/Master_Thesis_Agathe%20Saez.pdf
identifier:   Saëz, Agathe  (2020) New Towns & community-based initiatives: A study of the performance of community-based initiatives in New Towns in the Netherlands.  Master thesis.