Resilience in the Post-Welfare Inner City: Voluntary Sector Geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney

'Resilience' has become one of the first fully fledged academic and political buzzwords of the 21st century. Within this context, Geoffrey DeVerteuil proposes a more critically engaged and conceptually robust version, applying it to the conspicuous but now residual clusters of inner-city voluntary sector organisations deemed ‘service hubs’.

The process of resilience is compared across ten service hubs in three complex but different global inner-city regions – London, Los Angeles and Sydney...