Handbook of Social Infrastructure

Edited by Anna-Theresa Renner, Leonhard Plank and Michael Getzner, Department of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy, TU Wien, Austria

Contents:
Introduction to the Handbook of Social Infrastructure 1
Anna-Theresa Renner, Leonhard Plank, Michael Getzner
PART I DOMAINS AND INSTITUTIONS OF SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
HEALTH AND CARE
1 Hospitals as social infrastructure - accessible for all? 20
Anna-Theresa Renner
2 Strengthening social infrastructure in long-term care for older people –
Coordinated action and local empowerment in Europe 39
Cassandra Simmons, Stefania Ilinca, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Claire
Champeix, Lian Southard and Nick Zonnenveld.
3 Demographic change, healthcare, and long-term care 56
Sonja Spitzer and Claudia Reiter
EDUCATION AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
4 The organization of formal childcare: inequalities in use and effects of
childcare services 86
Astrid Pennerstorfer and Michaela Neumayr
5 Locating vocational education and training within the social
infrastructure of communities past and present 106
Lorna Unwin
6 Unemployment and labor market policies 121
Lukas Lehner and Dennis Tamesberger
7 Is social infrastructure punching below its weight in the debate on
social mobility? 143
Mathieu P.A. Steijn
MARGINALIZED AND VULNERABLE GROUPS
8 Social infrastructure for migrants and integration 159
Judith Kohlenberger
9 Social infrastructure in the NowHereland of undocumented migration:
the case of Austria and Israel 176
Ursula Trummer, Sonja Novak-Zezula and Lika Nusbaum
10 Homelessness and social infrastructure 199
Simon Güntner, Nancy Meyer-Adams, Marc Diebäcker
CULTURE AND RECREATION
10 Heritage and social infrastructure 210
Ioanna Katapidi and Anne Laura Kraak
12 Cultural infrastructure as part of social infrastructure: perspectives of
cultural policy and economics 231
Michael Getzner
13 Cultural institutions in transitional China: public service and corporate
development 248
Yan Li
14 Public recreation areas as social infrastructure: empirical results from Vienna 272
Michael Getzner
PART II CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PATHWAYS FOR SOCIAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL CHALLENGES FOR SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURES
15 Urban heat waves and adaptive capacity: how can social infrastructure
help reduce vulnerability? 288
Leora Courtney-Wolfman
16 The care crisis, social infrastructure and the COVID-19 crisis 310
Hanne Marlene Dahl and Molly Occhino
NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH
17 Social infrastructures from a global perspective: beyond the formal and
informal divide 331
Judith M. Lehner
18 Material and “providential” social infrastructures – a foundational
economy perspective 348
Filippo Barbera
19 The role of urban and regional planning in the provision of social infrastructure 361
Jan Whittington, Dian Prasetyawati and Chin-Wei Chen
20 Housing as social infrastructure 391
Andrej Holm