Neighbourhood effects or neighbourhood based problems? : a policy context /

"This edited volume critically examines the link between area based policies, neighbourhood based problems, and neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents' life chances over and above the effect of their individual charact...

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Other Authors: Manley, David, Ham, Maarten van, Bailey, Nick, Simpson, Ludi, Maclennan, Duncan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Neighbourhood effects or neighbourhood based problems? A policy context / David Manley, Maarten van Ham, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson and Duncan Maclennan
  • Educational area based initiatives: issues of redistribution and recognition / Carlo Raffo
  • Spatially-concentrated worklessness and neighbourhood policies: experiences from New Labour in England / Stephen Syrett and David North
  • The role of neighbourhoods in shaping crime and perceptions of crime / Ian Brunton-Smith, Alex Sutherland and Jonathan Jackson
  • An environmental justice framework for understanding neighbourhood inequalities in health and well-being / Jamie Pearce
  • Capitalist urbanization affects your life chances: exorcising the ghosts of 'Neighbourhood Effects' / Tom Slater
  • Social mix: international policy approaches / Keith Kintrea
  • Neighbourhood revitalization in Canada: towards place-based policy solutions / Neil Bradford
  • Neighbourhood effects and evidence in neighbourhood policy in the UK: have they been connected and should they be? / Rebecca Tunstall
  • Neighbourhood based policies in the Netherlands: counteracting neighbourhood effects? / Gideon Bolt and Ronald van Kempen
  • U.S. assisted housing programs and poverty deconcentration: a critical geographic review / George Galster
  • Neighbourhood effects and social cohesion: exploring the evidence in Australian urban renewal policies / Kathy Arthurson
  • Neighbourhoods: evolving ideas, evidence and changing policies / Duncan Maclennan.