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'A timely and highly relevant contribution. Congratulations are due
to the editors and contributing authors for producing such a
valuable work.' - Leo-Paul Dana, Princeton University 'This is a
comprehensive and ground-breaking volume on the complex
relationships between enterprise, community and neighbourhood. The
editors have succeeded in bringing together a wide variety of
scholars who are at the cutting edge of research and theorising in
this field. The book presents new and significant research findings
and throws important new light on the contribution of
entrepreneurship to community development at a local level.' -
Peter Somerville, University of Lincoln, UK Despite the growing
evidence on the importance of the neighbourhood, entrepreneurship
studies have largely neglected the role of neighbourhoods. This
book addresses the nexus between entrepreneurship, neighbourhoods
and communities, confirming not only the importance of `the local'
in entrepreneurship, but also filling huge gaps in the knowledge
base regarding this tripartite relationship. Interdisciplinary
chapters explore the importance of the neighbourhood and local
social networks for individual entrepreneurs, highlighting the
importance of `the local' in entrepreneurship across several
countries. Considering entrepreneurship as a community-based,
rather than individual, effort, key contributions explore how
entrepreneurship can influence neighbourhoods and communities, in
particular through entrepreneurial actions of residents joining
forces. The book critically examines the ways in which
entrepreneurship can benefit, shape and transform neighbourhoods,
particularly those areas affected by social deprivation and
poverty. Finally, it outlines a research agenda to further extend
the scientific and policy-relevant knowledge on the relationships
between entrepreneurship, neighbourhoods and communities. As a
response to the international call for an interdisciplinary
approach to entrepreneurship research and neighbourhood and
community studies, this book will engage scholars and researchers
from entrepreneurship studies, urban geography, housing studies,
political studies, sociology and urban planning. Contributors
include: N. Bailey, I. Capdevila, E. Casper-Futterman, J. Chrisman,
M. de Beer, J. DeFilippis, R. Kleinhans, J. Lendrum, C. Mason, A.M.
Peredo, D. Reuschke, E. Rijshouwer, V. Schutjens, E. Stam, S.
Swider, S. Syrett, J. Uitermark, V. van de Vrande, M. van Ham, D.
Varady, B. Volker, C. Williams, N. Williams
This volume addresses the increase in the number of firms in mixed
or residential neighbourhoods. It offers a balanced and
well-informed set of contributions on this significant spatial
shift. These contributions focus on how these businesses make use
of the Internet, how they are affected by urban policies, how they
are embedded (also in an emotional sense) in their neighbourhoods,
and how work and care are combined in home-based businesses. This
volume, then, provides a timely and highly relevant comprehensive
view of an important phenomenon not just in the Global North but
also in the Global South.' - Robert C. Kloosterman, University of
Amsterdam, the Netherlands'This edited volume breaks new ground by
examining a neglected but important issue. Given that over half of
all businesses in many advanced economies are home-based, making
the connections between entrepreneurship and peoples' homes and
local neighbourhoods is essential for both national policies to
increase start-up rates and local policies to promote economic
development. This book will be required reading for all wishing to
understand how to harness the significant but untapped potential
for local growth by doing so.' - Colin C. Williams, University of
Sheffield, UK Entrepreneurship in Cities focuses on the neglected
role of the home and the residential neighbourhood context for
entrepreneurship and businesses within cities. The overall
objective of the book is to develop a new interdisciplinary
perspective that links entrepreneurship research with neighbourhood
and urban studies. A key contribution is to show that
entrepreneurship in cities is more than agglomeration economies and
high-tech clusters. This is the first book to connect
entrepreneurship with neighbourhoods and homes, recognising that
business activity in the city is not confined to central business
districts, high streets and industrial estates but is also
increasingly found in residential neighbourhoods. It highlights the
importance of home-based businesses for the economy of cities.
These often overlooked types of businesses and workers
significantly contribute to the 'buzz' that makes cities favourable
places to live and work. Including interdisciplinary and
international perspectives, this will be an invaluable resource for
researchers and Masters students in entrepreneurship, urban
studies, geography, and planning, as well as practitioners involved
in urban planning and development. Contributors: N. Bailey, B.
Baldauf, S.-A. Barnes, H. Behle, S. Carter, W.A.V. Clark, M. de
Hoyos, C. Ekinsmyth, I. Fischer-Krapohl, F. Flogel, S. Gartner, A.
Green, H. Hanhoerster, C. Mason, G. Mollenhorst, S. Mwaura, D.
Reuschke, V. Schutjens, A. Southern, S. Syrett, M. van Ham, H.
Verrest, B. Volker, S. Weck, G. Whittam
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Neighborhood Decline (Paperback)
Ronald Van Kempen, Gideon Bolt, Maarten Van Ham
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The global financial and economic crisis that hit the world since
2008 has affected the lives of many people all over the world and
resulted in declining incomes, rising unemployment, foreclosures,
forced residential moves, and cut-backs in government expenditure.
The extent to which the crisis has affected urban neighborhoods and
has led to rising intra-urban inequalities, has not yet received
much attention. The implemented budget cuts and austerity programs
of national and local governments are likely to have hit some
neighborhoods more than others. The authors of this this book,
which come from a variety of countries and disciplines, show that
the economic crisis has affected poor neighborhoods more severely
than more affluent ones. The tendency of the state to retreat from
these neighborhoods has negative consequences for their residents
and may even nullify the investments that have been made in many
poor neighborhoods in the recent past. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Urban Geography.
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Neighborhood Decline (Hardcover)
Ronald Van Kempen, Gideon Bolt, Maarten Van Ham
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The global financial and economic crisis that hit the world since
2008 has affected the lives of many people all over the world and
resulted in declining incomes, rising unemployment, foreclosures,
forced residential moves, and cut-backs in government expenditure.
The extent to which the crisis has affected urban neighborhoods and
has led to rising intra-urban inequalities, has not yet received
much attention. The implemented budget cuts and austerity programs
of national and local governments are likely to have hit some
neighborhoods more than others. The authors of this this book,
which come from a variety of countries and disciplines, show that
the economic crisis has affected poor neighborhoods more severely
than more affluent ones. The tendency of the state to retreat from
these neighborhoods has negative consequences for their residents
and may even nullify the investments that have been made in many
poor neighborhoods in the recent past. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Urban Geography.
Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening
the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of
European cities. While the levels of socio-economic segregation in
European cities are still modest compared to some parts of the
world, the poor are increasingly concentrating spatially within
capital cities across Europe. An overlooked area of research, this
book offers a systematic and representative account of the spatial
dimension of rising inequalities in Europe. This book provides
rigorous comparative evidence on socio-economic segregation from 13
European cities. Cities include Amsterdam, Athens, Budapest,
London, Milan, Madrid, Oslo, Prague, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn,
Vienna and Vilnius. Comparing 2001 and 2011, this multi-factor
approach links segregation to four underlying universal structural
factors: social inequalities, global city status, welfare regimes
and housing systems. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as
a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Chapter1+A+Multi-Factor+Approach.pdf
Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Chapter15+Inequality+and+Rising+Levels+of+Socio-Economic+Segregation.pdf
Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening
the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of
European cities. While the levels of socio-economic segregation in
European cities are still modest compared to some parts of the
world, the poor are increasingly concentrating spatially within
capital cities across Europe. An overlooked area of research, this
book offers a systematic and representative account of the spatial
dimension of rising inequalities in Europe. This book provides
rigorous comparative evidence on socio-economic segregation from 13
European cities. Cities include Amsterdam, Athens, Budapest,
London, Milan, Madrid, Oslo, Prague, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn,
Vienna and Vilnius. Comparing 2001 and 2011, this multi-factor
approach links segregation to four underlying universal structural
factors: social inequalities, global city status, welfare regimes
and housing systems. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as
a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Chapter1+A+Multi-Factor+Approach.pdf
Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Chapter15+Inequality+and+Rising+Levels+of+Socio-Economic+Segregation.pdf
This rare interdisciplinary combination of research into
neighbourhood dynamics and effects attempts to unravel the complex
relationship between disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the life
outcomes of the residents who live therein. It seeks to overcome
the notorious difficulties of establishing an empirical causal
relationship between living in a disadvantaged area and the poorer
health and well-being often found in such places. There remains a
widespread belief in neighbourhood effects: that living in a poorer
area can adversely affect residents' life chances. These chapters
caution that neighbourhood effects cannot be fully understood
without a profound understanding of the changes to, and selective
mobility into and out of, these areas. Featuring fresh research
findings from a number of countries and data sources, including
from the UK, Australia, Sweden and the USA, this book offers fresh
perspectives on neighbourhood choice and dynamics, as well as new
material for social scientists, geographers and policy makers
alike. It enriches neighbourhood effects research with insights
from the closely related, but currently largely separate,
literature on neighbourhood dynamics.
Over the last 25 years a vast body of literature has been
published on neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in more
deprived neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents' life
chances over and above the effect of their individual
characteristics. The volume of work not only reflects academic and
policy interest in this topic, but also the fact that we are still
no closer to answering the question of how important neighbourhood
effects actually are. There is little doubt that these effects
exist, but we do not know enough about the causal mechanisms which
produce them, their relative importance in shaping individual's
life chances, the circumstances or conditions under which they are
most important, or the most effective policy responses.
Collectively, the chapters in this book offer new perspectives on
these questions, and refocus the academic debate on neighbourhood
effects. The book enriches the neighbourhood effects literature
with insights from a wide range of disciplines and countries.
Over the last 25 years a vast body of literature has been
published on neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in more
deprived neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents' life
chances over and above the effect of their individual
characteristics. The volume of work not only reflects academic and
policy interest in this topic, but also the fact that we are still
no closer to answering the question of how important neighbourhood
effects actually are. There is little doubt that these effects
exist, but we do not know enough about the causal mechanisms which
produce them, their relative importance in shaping individual's
life chances, the circumstances or conditions under which they are
most important, or the most effective policy responses.
Collectively, the chapters in this book offer new perspectives on
these questions, and refocus the academic debate on neighbourhood
effects. The book enriches the neighbourhood effects literature
with insights from a wide range of disciplines and countries.
Robustandforensicanalysisofrelevantdatasupportedbyscienti?cmethodologies
is key to challenging contemporary debates around the use and abuse
of race statistics.Controversiessurroundingthecollection,
interpretationanduseofrace,
ethnicityandethnicgroupdatahavealonghistory.BeingrootedinEugenics,
this area of study has sparked intense reactions over the years.
The abuse of 'race'
statisticsisnotonlyapparentduringtimesofuncertaintybuthasbeenentrenchedin
social policies and political discourses in Britain since the
1950s. The collection of research studies in this book is therefore
much needed and timely, not least
becauseofrecentdebatessurroundingthenatureandinteractionsofminorityethnic
populationsinBritain. The numbers game is not new in British
political discourses but took a nasty turnpost9/11andpeakedpost7/7
withdiversitybeingnegativelyassociatedwith
concernsinrelationtopopulationsegregation,
communitycon?ictsandterrorism. This book effectively debunks
several myths and misinterpretions pertaining to
populationdiversity,
spatialdensityandthenatureofsocialrelationshipsbetween minority and
majority groups. More importantly, armed with scienti?c evidence,
it challenges the claim that spatial segregation along ethnic and
racial lines is necessarily an indication of community tensions,
social fragmentation and communitycon?icts. Despite the obvious
bene?ts of valid and reliable data on population diversity for
understanding social change and improving social conditions, there
was little
appetiteonthepartoftheBritishGovernmenttoformallycollectnationalstatistics
onethnicityuntil1991.Notwithstandingthis,
thechaptersinthisbookdemonstrate
thatdatafromthe1991and2001Censusescan, despitetheirlimitations,
provide Kay Hampton (BA Hons, MA, PhD, FRSA, FHEA) is Professor in
Communities and Race Relations at the Glasgow Caledonian
University. She was Chair, Deputy Chair and Scottish Commissioner
on the Commission for Racial Equality (2003-2007) and Commissioner
on the
EqualityandHumanRightsCommission(2006-2009).SheiscurrentlyaCommissionerforthe
ScottishHumanRightsCommission. 1
ThebombingsoftheTwinTowersinNewYorkon9September2001andtheLondonbombings
on7July2005. v vi Foreword useful baseline statistics for
conducting in-depth, analytical studies in contested
areasof'race'andethnicity.
This rare interdisciplinary combination of research into
neighbourhood dynamics and effects attempts to unravel the complex
relationship between disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the life
outcomes of the residents who live therein. It seeks to overcome
the notorious difficulties of establishing an empirical causal
relationship between living in a disadvantaged area and the poorer
health and well-being often found in such places. There remains a
widespread belief in neighbourhood effects: that living in a poorer
area can adversely affect residents' life chances. These chapters
caution that neighbourhood effects cannot be fully understood
without a profound understanding of the changes to, and selective
mobility into and out of, these areas. Featuring fresh research
findings from a number of countries and data sources, including
from the UK, Australia, Sweden and the USA, this book offers fresh
perspectives on neighbourhood choice and dynamics, as well as new
material for social scientists, geographers and policy makers
alike. It enriches neighbourhood effects research with insights
from the closely related, but currently largely separate,
literature on neighbourhood dynamics.
This open access book investigates the link between income
inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large
urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America,
and South America. It offers a unique global overview of
segregation trends based on case studies by local author teams. The
book shows important global trends in segregation, and proposes a
Global Segregation Thesis. Rising inequalities lead to rising
levels of socio-economic segregation almost everywhere in the
world. Levels of inequality and segregation are higher in cities in
lower income countries, but the growth in inequality and
segregation is faster in cities in high-income countries. This is
causing convergence of segregation trends. Professionalisation of
the workforce is leading to changing residential patterns.
High-income workers are moving to city centres or to attractive
coastal areas and gated communities, while poverty is increasingly
suburbanising. As a result, the urban geography of inequality
changes faster and is more pronounced than changes in segregation
levels. Rising levels of inequality and segregation pose huge
challenges for the future social sustainability of cities, as
cities are no longer places of opportunities for all.
Robustandforensicanalysisofrelevantdatasupportedbyscienti?cmethodologies
is key to challenging contemporary debates around the use and abuse
of race statistics.Controversiessurroundingthecollection,
interpretationanduseofrace,
ethnicityandethnicgroupdatahavealonghistory.BeingrootedinEugenics,
this area of study has sparked intense reactions over the years.
The abuse of 'race'
statisticsisnotonlyapparentduringtimesofuncertaintybuthasbeenentrenchedin
social policies and political discourses in Britain since the
1950s. The collection of research studies in this book is therefore
much needed and timely, not least
becauseofrecentdebatessurroundingthenatureandinteractionsofminorityethnic
populationsinBritain. The numbers game is not new in British
political discourses but took a nasty turnpost9/11andpeakedpost7/7
withdiversitybeingnegativelyassociatedwith
concernsinrelationtopopulationsegregation,
communitycon?ictsandterrorism. This book effectively debunks
several myths and misinterpretions pertaining to
populationdiversity,
spatialdensityandthenatureofsocialrelationshipsbetween minority and
majority groups. More importantly, armed with scienti?c evidence,
it challenges the claim that spatial segregation along ethnic and
racial lines is necessarily an indication of community tensions,
social fragmentation and communitycon?icts. Despite the obvious
bene?ts of valid and reliable data on population diversity for
understanding social change and improving social conditions, there
was little
appetiteonthepartoftheBritishGovernmenttoformallycollectnationalstatistics
onethnicityuntil1991.Notwithstandingthis,
thechaptersinthisbookdemonstrate
thatdatafromthe1991and2001Censusescan, despitetheirlimitations,
provide Kay Hampton (BA Hons, MA, PhD, FRSA, FHEA) is Professor in
Communities and Race Relations at the Glasgow Caledonian
University. She was Chair, Deputy Chair and Scottish Commissioner
on the Commission for Racial Equality (2003-2007) and Commissioner
on the
EqualityandHumanRightsCommission(2006-2009).SheiscurrentlyaCommissionerforthe
ScottishHumanRightsCommission. 1
ThebombingsoftheTwinTowersinNewYorkon9September2001andtheLondonbombings
on7July2005. v vi Foreword useful baseline statistics for
conducting in-depth, analytical studies in contested
areasof'race'andethnicity.
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