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...

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