Disadvantaged by where you live? : : Neighbourhood governance in contemporary urban policy / / ed. by Ian Smith, Eileen Lepine, Marilyn Taylor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Atkinson, Rob,; Beebeejaun, Yasminah,; Carmichael, Laurence,; Evans, Laura,; Grimshaw, Lucy,; Howard, Joanna,; Lepine, Eileen,; Purdue, Derrick,; Smith, Ian,; Sullivan, Helen,; Sweeting, David,; Taylor, Marilyn,
• HerausgeberIn: Lepine, Eileen,; Smith, Ian,; Taylor, Marilyn,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Disadvantaged by where you live? distils lessons from work on neighbourhoods carried out within the Cities Research Centre of the University of the West of England over the past seven years. It offers a major contribution to academic debates on the neighbourhood both as a sphere of governance and as a point of public service delivery under New Labour since 1997. The book explores how 'the neighbourhood' has been used in policy in the UK; what the 'appropriate contribution' of neighbourhood governance is and how this relates to concepts of multi-level governance; the tensions that are visible at the neighbourhood level and what this tells us about wider governance issues. The book explores and reflects on the notion of neighbourhood governance from a variety of perspectives that reflect the unique depth and breadth of the Centre's research programme. Neighbourhood governance is examined in relation to: multi-level governance and city-regions; local government; mainstreaming; cross-national differences in neighbourhood policy; community and civil society; diversity; different conceptions of democracy; and, evaluation and learning. In doing so, the book identifies useful conceptual tools for analysing the present and future contribution of policy to neighbourhoods.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the contributors -- Introduction: of neighbourhoods and governance -- Theories of ‘neighbourhood’ in urban policy -- Neighbourhood as a new focus for action in the urban policies of West European states -- Under construction – the city-region and the neighbourhood: new actors in a system of multi-level governance? -- More local than local government: the relationship between local government and the neighbourhood agenda -- Neighbourhoods, democracy and citizenship -- Community leadership cycles and neighbourhood governance -- Neighbourhood governance and diversity: the diverse neighbourhood -- Mainstreaming and neighbourhood governance: the importance of process, power and partnership -- Evaluation, knowledge and learning in neighbourhood governance: the case of the New Deal for Communities -- The future of neighbourhoods in urban policy -- Glossary -- Index