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census
Census Tract Poverty Rate
characteristics
collective
Collective Efficacy
Dutch Language
efficacy
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Equitability Index
Ethnic Competition Theory
Ethnic Concentration
Immigrant Adolescents
Indigenous Dutch
Inter-ethnic Contacts
Intergenerational Closure
intergenerational mobility
Mixed Communities Policy
multi-level modelling
Negative Relationship
neighborhood
Neighborhood Effects
Neighborhood Index
Neighborhood Poverty Rate
Neighborhood Quality
Neighbourhood Contextual Effects
neighbourhood impact on life outcomes
Neighbourhood Poverty
neighbourhoods
non-Western Citizens
non-Western Ethnic Minorities
Parental SES
poverty
rented
residential segregation
social
Social Renting
Socio-cultural Integration
socio-economic integration
spatial inequality
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urban deprivation analysis
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780415478090
  • Weight: 600g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Dec 2008
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

Many policies in several Western European countries and the U.S. aim to counter spatial concentrations of deprivation and create more socio-economically mixed residential areas. Such policies are founded on the belief that neighbourhoods have a strong and independent effect upon the well-being and life-chances of individuals. The adequacy of the evidence base to support this position has been the subject of spirited debate on both sides of the Atlantic. The primary purpose of this book is to contribute to this policy-relevant discussion by presenting new scholarship from many countries that rigorously quantifies various sorts of neighbourhood effects through the use of cutting-edge social scientific techniques.

The secondary purpose of this book is to introduce these techniques to a wider array of housing and planning researchers and to show how a variety of disciplines have offered insightful, synergistic perspectives. Research on neighbourhood effects has over the last 15 years led to a body of knowledge extending far beyond the sociological urban research where it originated. The problem of quantifying neighbourhood effects and the use of associated methodologies (like multi-level analysis, instrumental variables) has attracted scholars from criminology, sociology, social geography, economics and health science, and thus serves as a critical locus for interdisciplinary scholarship.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Housing Studies.
About
Jörg Blasius is a Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology, University of Bonn, Germany. He currently serves as the president of RC33 (research committee of logic and methodology in sociology) of the International Sociological Association. Jürgen Friedrichs is Professor Emeritus of the Research Institute for Sociology at the University of Cologne, Germany. He serves as senior editor of the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpyschologie. George Galster is the Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs at the Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Wayne State University. His research has dealt with metropolitan housing markets, racial discrimination and segregation.