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In a cross-national project, 14 neighborhoods from Germany, Austria and Switzerland were accompanied on their way to digitally supported neighborhood work. This paper discusses general requirements, choosing a suitable digital tool, the implementation process as well as the challenges faced by the various stakeholders. The following factors have been found to play a major role in sustainable neighborhood work: good fit with overall development strategy, interplay between online neighborhood work and physical interactions, strong existing neighborhood management structures, strategic planning of digitalization activities, start-up funding for innovation activities, and above all, the presence of a committed person or team as well as interesting content to attract users. Depending on the neighborhood, self-managed and individualistic solutions are preferred to generic and/or commercial solutions. There is no ‘fit-for-all’ path to sustainable digitally supported neighborhoods.

In a cross-national project, 14 neighborhoods from Germany, Austria and Switzerland were accompanied on their way to digitally supported neighborhood work. This paper discusses general requirements, choosing a suitable digital tool, the implementation process as well as the challenges faced by the various stakeholders. The following factors have been found to play a major role in sustainable neighborhood work: good fit with overall development strategy, interplay between online neighborhood work and physical interactions, strong existing neighborhood management structures, strategic planning of digitalization activities, start-up funding for innovation activities, and above all, the presence of a committed person or team as well as interesting content to attract users. Depending on the neighborhood, self-managed and individualistic solutions are preferred to generic and/or commercial solutions. There is no ‘fit-for-all’ path to sustainable digitally supported neighborhoods.

The objective of this work is to review citizen trust in the face of government action in risk and contingency situations such as the coronavirus covid-19 pandemic. A documentary, meta-analytical and retrospective study was carried out with a selection of sources indexed to international repositories, considering the period from 2010 to 2020, although the research design limited the results to the research scenario, suggesting the extension of the work towards the relationship between trust and microfinance within the framework of local development., El objetivo de este trabajo es revisar la confianza ciudadana ante la actuación del gobierno en situaciones de riesgo y contingencia como la pandemia del coronavirus covid-19. Se realizó un estudio documental, meta analítico y retrospectivo con una selección de fuentes indexadas a repositorios internacionales, considerando el período de 2010 a 2020, aunque el diseño de investigación limitó los resultados al escenario de investigación, sugiriendo la extensión del trabajo hacia la relación entre confianza y microfinanzas en el marco del desarrollo local.

Urban sustainability goals are closely tied to the current political context, in which the imperative to attract highly mobile global capital frequently steers the objectives of local government. In this paper, I argue for the incorporation of the neighborhood scale into contemporary understandings of “local” or “urban” sustainability policy, emphasizing the potential for multi-scalar certification frameworks to subvert the predominant global-local relationship. By shifting the conceptualization and implementation of sustainability from globally dependent urban regimes to a diverse array of discrete urban communities, neighborhood-scale initiatives are able to draw greater attention to issues of social equity, environmental justice, and spatially uneven development. At the same time, the ability for those initiatives to operate within (inter)national certification frameworks provides them with guidance, greater legitimacy, and opportunities for knowledge-sharing. I explore this idea through an examination of two neighborhood-scale sustainability certification frameworks: the well-established “LEED for Neighborhood Development” certification that uses a points-based framework to evaluate the sustainability of neighborhood redevelopment designs; and the “EcoDistricts” framework, which uses a general set of “imperatives” to evaluate neighborhood sustainability. Through quantitative analysis, I find that neighborhoods participating in both of these frameworks are at potential risk of gentrification. However, through case studies and empirical analysis, I find that certification frameworks and neighborhood-scale projects form a mutually constitutive relationship in which interpretations of sustainability and social equity are generated by neighborhood stakeholders, codified through certification, and evolve through local adaptation.

An der Schnittstelle von Quartiers- und Wohnungsmarktforschung wurde im Rahmen dieser Arbeit der Beitrag von Wohnungseigentümern zu einer resilienten Quartiersentwicklung in Berlin untersucht. Die Verknüpfung des Quartiers als Untersuchungsraum mit dem Konzept der Resilienz stellt aus raumwissenschaftlicher Perspektive eine weitgehende Neuerung im akademischen Diskurs dar. Aufgrund der massiven Transformation des deutschen Mietwohnungsmarktes hinsichtlich dessen Eigentümerstruktur seit Ende der 1990er, standen die beiden zentralen Akteure dieses Prozesses - kommunale Wohnungsunternehmen sowie private Finanzinvestoren - im Fokus der Analyse. Der Beitrag der Wohnungseigentümer zu resilienter Quartiersentwicklung wurde sowohl in Hinblick auf deren Bestandsbewirtschaftung als auch hinsichtlich des Engagements in einem weiteren Quartierskontext untersucht und bewertet. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung belegen, dass Wohnungseigentümern insgesamt eine sehr bedeutende Rolle für die Resilienz von Quartieren zukommt, da sie diese auf vielfältige Weise beeinflussen - sowohl über ihre Bestandsbewirtschaftung als auch darüber hinaus. Das Engagement im weiteren Quartiersumfeld sowie der daraus resultierende Beitrag zur Quartiersresilienz sind dabei sehr divers, wobei Engagement von den Wohnungseigentümern in verschiedenen Quartieren sehr selektiv erbracht wird. Während in (Groß)Wohnsiedlungen das Engagement recht aktiv war, konnten in Altbauquartieren kaum Aktivitäten der Eigentümer identifiziert werden. Dabei war die Erbringung des Quartiersengagements sowie der Beitrag zur Resilienz von einer Reihe verschiedener Faktoren abhängig (quartiers- und unternehmensspezifische sowie institutionelle). Der Beitrag zur Resilienz von Quartieren konnte für die kommunalen Wohnungsunternehmen im Vergleich zu den privaten Finanzinvestoren insgesamt als positiver charakterisiert werden, wobei eine Pauschalisierung nicht erfolgen kann. So konnte zum einen auch für private Investoren vereinzelt ei, At the interface of neighborhood and housing market research, the presented study examines the contribution of housing owners to a resilient neighborhood development in Berlin. The link between the neighborhood as an area of research and the concept of resilience is a scientific advancement from a spatial science perspective. Due to the massive transformation of the German rental housing market in terms of its ownership structure since the end of the 1990s, the two central actors of this process, municipal housing companies as well as private financial investors, have been in the center of the analysis. The housing owners’ contribution to resilient neighborhood development was analyzed and assessed both with regard to their stock management and particularly their commitment in the neighborhood. The results of the study reveal that housing owners are of major importance for neighborhood resilience as they influence it in various ways, by their stock management and beyond. The commitment in a broader neighborhood setting as well as the resulting contribution to neighborhood resilience are very diverse. However, housing owners render their activities in various neighborhoods very selectively. While in (large) housing estates the commitment was fairly active, hardly any activities could be identified in old building stock neighborhoods. The performance of neighborhood commitment and the contribution to resilience was dependent on a number of factors (neighborhood and company-specific as well as institutional). The contribution to neighborhood resilience can be characterized as more positively for the municipal housing companies compared to the private investors. A generalization, however, should not be deduced since a positive contribution to neighborhood resilience could be identified for private investors occasionally. Furthermore, an absence of commitment could also be observed for the municipal housing companies in several neighborhoods.

An der Schnittstelle von Quartiers- und Wohnungsmarktforschung wurde im Rahmen dieser Arbeit der Beitrag von Wohnungseigentümern zu einer resilienten Quartiersentwicklung in Berlin untersucht. Die Verknüpfung des Quartiers als Untersuchungsraum mit dem Konzept der Resilienz stellt aus raumwissenschaftlicher Perspektive eine weitgehende Neuerung im akademischen Diskurs dar. Aufgrund der massiven Transformation des deutschen Mietwohnungsmarktes hinsichtlich dessen Eigentümerstruktur seit Ende der 1990er, standen die beiden zentralen Akteure dieses Prozesses - kommunale Wohnungsunternehmen sowie private Finanzinvestoren - im Fokus der Analyse. Der Beitrag der Wohnungseigentümer zu resilienter Quartiersentwicklung wurde sowohl in Hinblick auf deren Bestandsbewirtschaftung als auch hinsichtlich des Engagements in einem weiteren Quartierskontext untersucht und bewertet. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung belegen, dass Wohnungseigentümern insgesamt eine sehr bedeutende Rolle für die Resilienz von Quartieren zukommt, da sie diese auf vielfältige Weise beeinflussen - sowohl über ihre Bestandsbewirtschaftung als auch darüber hinaus. Das Engagement im weiteren Quartiersumfeld sowie der daraus resultierende Beitrag zur Quartiersresilienz sind dabei sehr divers, wobei Engagement von den Wohnungseigentümern in verschiedenen Quartieren sehr selektiv erbracht wird. Während in (Groß)Wohnsiedlungen das Engagement recht aktiv war, konnten in Altbauquartieren kaum Aktivitäten der Eigentümer identifiziert werden. Dabei war die Erbringung des Quartiersengagements sowie der Beitrag zur Resilienz von einer Reihe verschiedener Faktoren abhängig (quartiers- und unternehmensspezifische sowie institutionelle). Der Beitrag zur Resilienz von Quartieren konnte für die kommunalen Wohnungsunternehmen im Vergleich zu den privaten Finanzinvestoren insgesamt als positiver charakterisiert werden, wobei eine Pauschalisierung nicht erfolgen kann. So konnte zum einen auch für private Investoren vereinzelt ei, At the interface of neighborhood and housing market research, the presented study examines the contribution of housing owners to a resilient neighborhood development in Berlin. The link between the neighborhood as an area of research and the concept of resilience is a scientific advancement from a spatial science perspective. Due to the massive transformation of the German rental housing market in terms of its ownership structure since the end of the 1990s, the two central actors of this process, municipal housing companies as well as private financial investors, have been in the center of the analysis. The housing owners’ contribution to resilient neighborhood development was analyzed and assessed both with regard to their stock management and particularly their commitment in the neighborhood. The results of the study reveal that housing owners are of major importance for neighborhood resilience as they influence it in various ways, by their stock management and beyond. The commitment in a broader neighborhood setting as well as the resulting contribution to neighborhood resilience are very diverse. However, housing owners render their activities in various neighborhoods very selectively. While in (large) housing estates the commitment was fairly active, hardly any activities could be identified in old building stock neighborhoods. The performance of neighborhood commitment and the contribution to resilience was dependent on a number of factors (neighborhood and company-specific as well as institutional). The contribution to neighborhood resilience can be characterized as more positively for the municipal housing companies compared to the private investors. A generalization, however, should not be deduced since a positive contribution to neighborhood resilience could be identified for private investors occasionally. Furthermore, an absence of commitment could also be observed for the municipal housing companies in several neighborhoods.

Slavic Village is a revitalizing urban neighborhood in the southeast area of the City of Cleveland. A historic neighborhood that was once home to 75,000 immigrants of Polish and Slavic descent, it has seen steady decline since the 1960’s, along with other Cleveland neighborhoods, and was especially hard hit during the housing and foreclosure crisis of 2007-2010. However, in the present day, it has many assets and opportunities that make it poised to become one of the vibrant Cleveland neighborhoods of the future. This study was done as part of a student project to look at the potential to re-invigorate Slavic Village’s retail business and shopping environment. A gravity model and niche analysis was used to evaluate the standard retail shopping environment, and the specialty retail shopping environment was evaluated through comparison with five other urban neighborhoods. Together, they demonstrate the opportunities and strengths of the Slavic Village neighborhood.

The article will introduce the reader to the Cuban situation concerning neighborhood development, civic participation, and housing policy. Its intention is to demonstrate a concept of government-introduced self-help housing in Cuba called microbrigades, using case study analysis of Santa Clara, Cuba. Comparing Cuban microbrigades with other self-help housing projects from different countries highlights the particularities of this extraordinary concept.

The article will introduce the reader to the Cuban situation concerning neighborhood development, civic participation, and housing policy. Its intention is to demonstrate a concept of government-introduced self-help housing in Cuba called microbrigades, using case study analysis of Santa Clara, Cuba. Comparing Cuban microbrigades with other self-help housing projects from different countries highlights the particularities of this extraordinary concept.

The purpose of this thesis is to identify and analyze how neighborhood development can affect the image of and the identity in a neighborhood. An empirical study needed to complement the theory. The choice to do the field study in Helsingborg, Sweden is based on the fact that it is a city that is developing rapidly; it is working on being more attractive nationally. Helsingborg’s position in the area of Öresundsregion might profit further development. The thesis identifies the importance of working with image and identity within neighborhoods that are under development. Moreover the study adds a perspective to the research by showing how work done by the Ministry of Urban Planning as well as housing companies affect how the residents meet the changes and how media decide to present them. I found that the main goal with neighborhood development in Helsingborg is to create physical attractive neighborhoods that are economical gaining. Another important conclusion is the lack of focus on soft factors such as image and identity when going through neighborhood development.

This article presents a case study of the inter-organizational network that formed to produce four housing projects in Cleveland's EcoVillage designed to integrate social equity and ecological stewardship as the basis for neighborhood redevelopment. Our paper builds on concepts of community development and housing production through inter-organizational networks spanning nonprofit, public, and private organizations that developed and supported four “green” and affordable housing projects. We are interested in understanding how development of the housing projects changed and connected traditional neighborhood development and ecologically-oriented organizations and how their interaction changed the practice of housing production and environmental and sustainability advocacy locally and regionally. The results of the study reveal that the marriage of green and affordable housing in Cleveland, despite some challenges, was viewed as important and beneficial by the organizations involved, and resulted in a range of demonstration projects that not only changed the EcoVillage, but affected other neighborhood housing projects in Cleveland as well. The projects resulted in enhanced capacity for green housing production through creation of a new network of organizations spanning the housing and environmental sustainability fields of practice that continues to support sustainable housing and neighborhood development in Cleveland.

The purpose of this thesis is to identify and analyze how neighborhood development can affect the image of and the identity in a neighborhood. An empirical study needed to complement the theory. The choice to do the field study in Helsingborg, Sweden is based on the fact that it is a city that is developing rapidly; it is working on being more attractive nationally. Helsingborg’s position in the area of Öresundsregion might profit further development. The thesis identifies the importance of working with image and identity within neighborhoods that are under development. Moreover the study adds a perspective to the research by showing how work done by the Ministry of Urban Planning as well as housing companies affect how the residents meet the changes and how media decide to present them. I found that the main goal with neighborhood development in Helsingborg is to create physical attractive neighborhoods that are economical gaining. Another important conclusion is the lack of focus on soft factors such as image and identity when going through neighborhood development.

This report discusses the role of colleges and universities in the economic development of neighborhoods and cities through direct investments in real estate. It explores various approaches to neighborhood economic development and looks at how educational institutions can partner with public agencies and neighborhood-based organizations to meet the objectives of both the institution and the community in which it resides.