City survivors : : Bringing up children in disadvantaged neighbourhoods / / Anne Power.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• VerfasserIn: Power, Anne,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and Policy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

Seen through the eyes of parents, mainly mothers, City survivors tells the eye-opening story of what it is like to bring up children in troubled city neighbourhoods. The book provides a unique insider view on the impact of neighbourhood conditions on family life and explores the prospects for families from the point of view of equality, integration, schools, work, community, regeneration and public services. City Survivors is based on yearly visits over seven years to two hundred families living in four highly disadvantaged city neighbourhoods, two in East London and two in Northern inner and outer city areas. Twenty four families, six from each area, explain over time from the inside, how neighbourhoods in and of themselves directly affect family survival. These twenty four stories convey powerful messages from parents about the problems they want tackled, and the things that would help them. The main themes explored in the book are neighbourhood, community, family, parenting, incomes and locals, the need for civic intervention. The book offers original and in-depth, qualitative evidence in a readable and accessible form that will be invaluable to policy-makers, practitioners, university students, academics and general readers interested in the future of families in cities.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction – city survivors -- Neighbourhoods matter – is it the people or the place? -- Community matters – survival and instincts in social animals -- Families matter – mothers carry the weight -- Parenting matters – pushing for kids -- Incomers and locals – a shrinking pot? -- City survival within precarious communities – who pays the price of change? -- Conclusion – cities need families -- Methods -- Summary of characteristics of the 24 families whose stories we tell -- Information about the 24 families whose stories we tell -- Development of themes – round by round -- Bibliography -- Index