Neighbourhood Effects or Neighbourhood Based Problems?

• 1: Neighbourhood effects or neighbourhood based problems? A policy context: David Manley, Maarten van Ham, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson and Duncan Maclennan.- 2: Educational area based initiatives: issues of redistribution and recognition: Carlo Raffo.- 3: Spatially-concentrated worklessness and neighbourhood policies: experiences from New Labour in England: Stephen Syrett and David North.- 4: The role of neighbourhoods in shaping crime and perceptions of crime: Ian Brunton-Smith, Alex Sutherland and Jonathan Jackson.- 5: An environmental justice framework for understanding neighbourhood inequalities in health and well-being: Jamie Pearce.- 6: Capitalist urbanization affects your life chances: exorcising the ghosts of ‘Neighbourhood Effects’: Tom Slater.- 7: Social mix: international policy approaches: Keith Kintrea.- 8: Neighbourhood revitalization in Canada: towards place-based policy solutions: Neil Bradford.- 9: Neighbourhood effects and evidence in neighbourhood policy in the UK: have they been connected and should they be?: Rebecca Tunstall.-10: Neighbourhood based policies in the Netherlands: counteracting neighbourhood effects?: Gideon Bolt and Ronald van Kempen.- 11: U.S. assisted housing programs and poverty deconcentration: a critical geographic review: George Galster.- 12: Neighbourhood effects and social cohesion: exploring the evidence in Australian urban renewal policies: Kathy Arthurson.- 13: Neighbourhoods: evolving ideas, evidence and changing policies: Duncan Maclennan.

From the book reviews: "This book sets out to interrogate the link between area-based policies, neighbourhood-based problems and 'neighbourhood effects', defined here as 'the idea that the neighbourhood in which an individual lives can negatively influence their life choices across a vast range of domains' ... . The book is divided into two sections. ... I would wholeheartedly recommend this book to policymakers, students and researchers engaged in this important endeavour." (Rionach Casey, Social Policy & Administration, Vol. 49 (1), January, 2015)