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Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. In this view, designating a neighborhood as historic is a project by and for affluent residents concerned with aesthetics, not affordability. It leads to gentrification and rising property values for wealthy homeowners, while displacement afflicts longer-term, lower-income residents of the neighborhood, often people of color.Through rich case studies of Baltimore and Brooklyn, Aaron Passell complicates this story, exploring how community activists and local governments use historic preservation to accelerate or slow down neighborhood change. He argues that this form of regulation is one of the few remaining urban policy interventions that enable communities to exercise some control over the changing built environments of their neighborhoods. In Baltimore, it is part of a primarily top-down strategy for channeling investment into historic neighborhoods, many of them plagued by vacancy and abandonment. In central Brooklyn, neighborhood groups have discovered the utility of landmark district designation as they seek to mitigate rapid change with whatever legal tools they can. The contrast between Baltimore and Brooklyn reveals that the relationship between historic preservation and neighborhood change varies not only from city to city, but even from neighborhood to neighborhood. In speaking with local activists, Passell finds that historic district designation and enforcement efforts can be a part of neighborhood community building and bottom-up revitalization.Featuring compelling narrative interviews alongside quantitative data, Preserving Neighborhoods is a nuanced mixed-methods study of an important local-level urban policy and its surprisingly varied consequences.

City planning --- Historic preservation --- City planning --- Social aspects --- Baltimore (Md.) --- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Historic Preservation. --- gentrification. --- neighborhood change. --- neighborhood policy. --- urban policy.

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#SBIB:327.7H233 --- Europese Unie: externe relaties, buitenlands- en defensiebeleid (ook WEU) --- European Neighbourhood Policy (Program) --- European Neighborhood Policy (Program) --- ENP --- European Commission. --- Politique européenne de voisinage (Program) --- PEV --- Politica Europeană de Vecinătate (Program) --- European Union countries --- Foreign relations.

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The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was initially intended to create ‘a ring of friends surrounding the Union, from Morocco to Russia and the Black Sea’ (Prodi, 2002). Today, however, the ever-worsening security situation in the region clearly shows that the aim has not been achieved. With wars in Ukraine, Syria and Libya, the Union’s neighbourhood can therefore better be described as ‘a ring of fire’. Does this means that the policy has failed and that an alternative policy towards the EU’s neighbours is needed? Or should these developments be seen as temporary setbacks caused by external factors beyond EU control? By comparing the EU’s approach to its eastern and southern neighbours, this volume seeks to answer such overarching questions. The authors find that the EU still has a potential role to play in providing regional security, but that this role also risks being increasingly undermined if it does not increasingly take into account the broader geostrategic realities in both regions. .

Political science. --- Public policy. --- Europe --- Political Science and International Relations. --- European Politics. --- Public Policy. --- Politics and government. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Europe-Politics and government. --- Europe—Politics and government. --- European Neighbourhood Policy (Program) --- European Union countries --- EU countries. --- Foreign relations. --- ENP --- European Commission. --- European Neighborhood Policy (Program) --- PEV --- Politica Europeană de Vecinătate (Program) --- Politique européenne de voisinage (Program) --- EU countries --- Euroland --- European Union countries.

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This volume draws together academics and think tank experts to explore the revised European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) and EU Global Strategy (EUGS) towards the Southern Neighborhood, in the context of the Arab Uprisings and conflict, counter-terrorism cooperation, the Mediterranean refugee crisis, energy developments in the Eastern Mediterranean, shifting interactions with and between international partners, and the fallout from Covid-19. Covering aspects such as actorness, power and alliances, history, socioeconomics, domestic politics, regime security, and the regional security complex, the authors provide a comprehensive and theoretically rich analysis of EU policy inputs, southern neighborhood interests and responses, as well as new strategy proposals aimed at enhancing human security. The volume will appeal to European and Middle East studies students, international relations scholars and policy professionals alike. Robert Mason is Associate Professor and Director of the Middle East Studies Center at The American University in Cairo 2016-19.

Security, International. --- European Union. --- International relations. --- Middle East—Politics and government. --- International Security Studies. --- European Union Politics. --- International Relations Theory. --- Middle Eastern Politics. --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Collective security --- International security --- International relations --- Disarmament --- International organization --- Peace --- European Neighbourhood Policy (Program) --- European Neighborhood Policy (Program) --- ENP --- European Commission. --- Politique européenne de voisinage (Program) --- PEV --- Politica Europeană de Vecinătate (Program)

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EU external democracy promotion has traditionally been based on 'linkage', i.e. bottom-up support for democratic forces in third countries, and 'leverage', i.e. the top-down inducement of political elites towards democratic reforms through political conditionality. The advent of the European Neighbourhood Policy and new forms of association have introduced a new, third model of democracy promotion which rests in functional cooperation between administrations. This volume comparatively defines and assesses these three models of external democracy promotion in the EU's relations with its eastern and southern neighbours. It argues that while 'linkage' has hitherto failed to produce tangible outcomes, and the success of 'leverage' has basically been tied to an EU membership perspective, the 'governance' model of democracy promotion bears greater potential beyond the circle of candidate countries.This third approach, while not tackling the core institutions of the political system as such, but rather promoting transparency, accountability, and participation at the level of state administration, may turn out to remain the EU's most tangible form of democratic governance promotion in the future. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

Democratization. --- Démocratisation --- European Union. --- European Neighbourhood Policy (Program) --- European Union countries --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- Foreign relations --- Relations extérieures --- Democracy --- Democratization --- European Union --- #SBIB:327.7H233 --- #SBIB:324H60 --- #SBIB:324H71 --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Political science --- New democracies --- Europese Unie: externe relaties, buitenlands- en defensiebeleid (ook WEU) --- Politieke socialisatie --- Politieke verandering: modernisatie, democratisering, regional development --- European Neighborhood Policy (Program) --- ENP --- European Commission. --- Politique européenne de voisinage (Program) --- PEV --- Politica Europeană de Vecinătate (Program) --- European Neighbourhood Policy (Program). --- Démocratisation --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- Relations extérieures --- Democracy - European Union countries --- European Union countries - Foreign relations --- European Union countries - Foreign relations - 21st century