The project class: Making and breaking social capital in urban and rural development

Abstract

One of the most important transformations that European societies have recently experienced is project proliferation. This new form of redistributing money and power within the European realm is arguably more readily perceivable in rural areas, but urban development has also been reshaped in the wake of “projectification”. The paper lays out models of how social capital is being redistributed in the context of urban and rural development and shows what role social capital can play at the nexus of project class and partnerships.