| | Neighbourhood Management - A Key Instrument in Integrative Urban District Development |
 | | Neighbourhood managers should therefore be reachable at a local contact address ("community bureau") and, for example, offer advice under the motto "helping others to help themselves", promote personal commitment and responsibility by a variety of campaigns, and encourage residents to contribute their own ideas and talents to integrative urban renewal. |
 | | However, neighbourhood management is to be understood - at the neighbourhood level, not within the municipal organisation or in competence allocation - as a limited-term institution that promotes or creates self-supporting structures in the area, and thus makes itself obsolescent after five or ten years. |
 | | Neighbourhood management plays a key role in the programme: all experience has shown that without effective neighbourhood management and appropriate administrative and political structures, government and the citizenry would fall back into their old roles of service supplier and service demander, hindering the lasting, self-sustained reversal of the difficult developments in disadvantaged urban areas. |
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