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Coordination in Urban Settings
Author(s) -
Graycar Adam,
Davis Joanne
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1977.tb00590.x
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , beneficiary , legitimacy , project commissioning , welfare , sociology , field (mathematics) , public relations , publishing , malaise , social welfare , focus (optics) , public administration , regional science , political science , geography , law , politics , mathematics , physics , archaeology , optics , pure mathematics , immunology , biology
In recent years a number of programmes have been developed which focus on the urban community rather than the individual as the beneficiary of welfare allocations. Working on the assumption that different views of social malaise will generate different programme types, this paper takes an analytical framework developed by Roland Warren and applies it to an Australian situation. The problem at stake is one of creating conditions in which a newly formed organization can enter an urban situation and begin to coordinate local activity. This paper discusses the difficulty a new organization has in breaking into the inter‐organizational field, the difficulty of achieving legitimacy, and means by which its activities may be prevented, blunted and repelled. These are illustrated with examples in metropolitan Adelaide.