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 1Anna-Theresa Renner, Leonhard Plank, Michael GetznerPART I DOMAINS AND INSTITUTIONS OF SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTUREHEALTH AND CARE1 Hospitals as social infrastructure - accessible for all? 20Anna-Theresa Renner2 Strengthening social infrastructure in long-term care for older people –Coordinated action and local empowerment in Europe 39Cassandra Simmons, Stefania Ilinca, Adelina Comas-Herrera, ClaireChampeix, Lian Southard and Nick Zonnenveld.3 Demographic change, healthcare, and long-term care 56Sonja Spitzer and Claudia ReiterEDUCATION AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT4 The organization of formal childcare: inequalities in use and effects ofchildcare services 86Astrid Pennerstorfer and Michaela Neumayr5 Locating vocational education and training within the socialinfrastructure of communities past and present 106Lorna Unwin6 Unemployment and labor market policies 121Lukas Lehner and Dennis Tamesberger7 Is social infrastructure punching below its weight in the debate onsocial mobility? 143Mathieu P.A. SteijnMARGINALIZED AND VULNERABLE GROUPS8 Social infrastructure for migrants and integration 159Judith Kohlenberger9 Social infrastructure in the NowHereland of undocumented migration:the case of Austria and Israel 176Ursula Trummer, Sonja Novak-Zezula and Lika Nusbaum10 Homelessness and social infrastructure 199Simon Güntner, Nancy Meyer-Adams, Marc DiebäckerCULTURE AND RECREATION10 Heritage and social infrastructure 210Ioanna Katapidi and Anne Laura Kraak12 Cultural infrastructure as part of social infrastructure: perspectives ofcultural policy and economics 231Michael Getzner13 Cultural institutions in transitional China: public service and corporatedevelopment 248Yan Li14 Public recreation areas as social infrastructure: empirical results from Vienna 272Michael GetznerPART II CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PATHWAYS FOR SOCIALINFRASTRUCTURESOCIO-ECOLOGICAL CHALLENGES FOR SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURES15 Urban heat waves and adaptive capacity: how can social infrastructurehelp reduce vulnerability? 288Leora Courtney-Wolfman16 The care crisis, social infrastructure and the COVID-19 crisis 310Hanne Marlene Dahl and Molly OcchinoNEW PERSPECTIVES FOR SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH17 Social infrastructures from a global perspective: beyond the formal andinformal divide 331Judith M. Lehner18 Material and “providential” social infrastructures – a foundationaleconomy perspective 348Filippo Barbera19 The role of urban and regional planning in the provision of social infrastructure 361Jan Whittington, Dian Prasetyawati and Chin-Wei Chen20 Housing as social infrastructure 391Andrej Holm

‘Paving the way for further research, the Handbook of Social Infrastructure is a vital resource for students and scholars of sociology, regional and urban economics, cities, urban planning and geography, and public sector economics and finance. Policy-makers will find it equally beneficial to inform their understanding of spatial planning and economic and social policies.’