Networked Urbanism: Social Capital in the City

摘要

Although, as Talja Blokland and Mike Savage suggest in their preface to Networked Urbanism, 'the concept of social capital has now been so much discussed that one may wonder whether there is anything to add' (p. xiii), it is likely that many readers will agree with the editors when they reject this view. Indeed, ten years after Markusen (1999) accused social capital of being a fuzzy concept lacking theoretical rigour, subsequent literature suggests that we are still seeking to explain what social capital is, how we can measure it, what it does and how it works (e.g. Beugelsdijk and van Schaik, 2005; Leonard, 2004; Mohan and Mohan, 2002).