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Building Community Citizens: Claiming the Right to Place-making in the City

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  • Jonathan Lepofsky

    (Department of Geography and Center for Urban and Regional Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hickerson House, Campus Box 3410, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3410, USA, lepofsky@email.unc.edu)

  • James C. Fraser

    (Department of Geography and Center for Urban and Regional Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hickerson House, Campus Box 3410, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3410, USA, pavement@unc.edu)

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This paper examines how citizenship operates in urban community-building programmes, particularly in the comprehensive community-building initiative (CCI) model. We argue that the current context shaping cities today gives rise to flexibility in citizenship and that this flexibility emerges as a key component by which resident and non-resident stakeholders position themselves to make claims to participate in CCIs. We posit that, while the CCI model is committed to being 'resident-driven', the operative function of citizenship creates a hindrance rather than an opportunity for local resident involvement. We fortify this thesis with a case study from our experience in CCIs.

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  • Jonathan Lepofsky & James C. Fraser, 2003. "Building Community Citizens: Claiming the Right to Place-making in the City," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 40(1), pages 127-142, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:40:y:2003:i:1:p:127-142
    DOI: 10.1080/00420980220080201
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    1. Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna, 2017. "Building Universal Socio-cultural Indicators for Standardizing the Safeguarding of Citizens’ Rights in Smart Cities," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 130(2), pages 563-579, January.
    2. Marcos Feldman & Violaine Jolivet, 2014. "Back to Little Havana: Controlling Gentrification in the Heart of Cuban Miami," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(4), pages 1266-1285, July.

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