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For non-profit social agencies, new contract funding structures have increased their vulnerability. Collaboration is a strategy for dealing with reductions in the availability of funding and the pressures to 'do more with less' but there are few illustrations of how this might be achieved. The main body of literature devoted to creating models for collaboration was developed in the world of the new public administration and market models. Many of the less formal approaches consist of checklists and mock contracts that strive to account for variables that may affect collaborations. While valuable for focussing attention on key aspects, these approaches assume a static set of factors that predict successful collaborations. In this project, an alternative to these types of functional or instrumental methods of partnership development was created through a particular type of action research known as co-operative inquiry. Through the iterative stages of reflection and action, a new conceptualization of collaboration evolved and a subsequent model developed. The model is based on criteria derived from the experiences of the community members and accounts for the dialectical relationship of the individual agency and the collective non-profit sector. Through the process of the research, a transformation in thinking, purpose and practice occurred, resulting in a new metaphor for living and working in the community.

Ihr schnelles und unkontrolliertes Wachstum stellte viele westdeutsche Großstädte wie Köln, Düsseldorf oder Duisburg Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts vor nie da gewesene Herausforderungen. Was sich im Siedlungsband zwischen Bonn und Duisburg in den letzten 100 Jahren veränderte, war grundlegend und weist exemplarisch zahlreiche "universelle" Entwicklungen auf. Das Buch beleuchtet sowohl die konkrete Entwicklung am Rhein als auch allgemeine städtebauliche Fragestellungen. Vielschichtig veranschaulicht wird eine bis in die Gegenwart reichende dynamische Entwicklungsgeschichte der Wirtschafts- und Kulturader Rhein, die heute – im Angesicht des Klimawandels – vor neuen, ebenso schwierigen Herausforderungen steht. Die eindrücklichen Fotogrfien von Lukas Roth widmen sich dabei den Themen auf ganz besondere Weise. Mit Beiträgen u.a. von: Gerd Albers, Friedrich von Borries, Martina Löw, Gerhard Matzig, Wolfgang Pehnt, Hanno Rauterberg, Wolfgang Sonne, Christoph Vitali