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.
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