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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Citizen Professionals: Reclaiming Collective Spaces

Citizen Professionals: Reclaiming Collective Spaces

Christof, Karin
Krasny, Elke

Paperback

General Sociology

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 9083579557
ISBN13: 9789083579559
Publisher: Set Margins' Publications
Published: Apr 21 2026
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

A practical reference, informed by successful cases enacted worldwide, for citizens committed to shaping the socio-spatial terrain of their communities

In recent decades, citizens active in urban governance have taken up their roles as autonomous subjects, negotiating with governmental actors on the reuse of vacant buildings while representing the wishes of fellow residents to create self-managed communal spaces that are open to neighborhood residents. They have appropriated vacant properties--and, where possible, constructed new buildings--in line with their own interests as well as those of civic groups and the common good. They work to create affordable working, living, cultural and community places in an increasingly commercialized urban environment. In this publication, these civic actors are referred to as citizen professionals (CPs). Author Karin Christof details how CPs can operate and empower themselves in this process of collective urban planning--from learning to collaborate to becoming intermediaries between existing powers and the populace.

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