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Neighbourhoods of Poverty is concerned with the spatial dimension of urban social exclusion and integration. It draws on research from twenty-two neighbourhoods in eleven European cities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Antwerp, London, Birmingham, Berlin, Hamburg, Milan, Naples and Paris and addresses two questions: - How do different neighbourhoods have an impact upon the opportunities and perspectives of poor individuals and households? - Are these neighbourhood impacts conditioned by national and welfare state contexts, by the wider metropolitan structures and by specific neighbourhood characteristics? Various aspects of poverty, social exclusion and integration are brought together and provide a new assessment of the place of neighbourhood within these wider debates.
List of contents
List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Contributors The Spatial Dimensions of Urban Social Exclusion and Integration; S.Musterd & A.Murie Berlin: Opportunities, Constraints and Strategies of the Urban Poor; A.Kapphan & H.Haeussermann Antwerp: Confronting the Social and Spatial; I.van Nieuwenhuyze & J.Vranken Amsterdam: Gender and Poverty; J.Droogleever Fortuijn & W.Ostendorf Hamburg: Contradicting Neighbourhood Effects on Poverty; M.Kronauer, P.Noller & B.Vogel Milan: Urban Poverty in a Wealthy City; A.Andreotti Rotterdam: Social Contracts in Poor Neighbourhoods: R.van Kempen Paris: Neighbourhood Identity as a Resource for the Urban Poor; E.Palomares & P.Simon London: Deprivation, Social Isolation and Regeneration; J.Beaumont Birmingham: Narratives of Neighbourhood Transition; P.Lee, A.Murie & R.Oosthuizen Naples: Unemployment and Spatial Exclusion; E.Morlicchio & E.Pugliese Brussels: Neighbourhoods as Generators of Integration; C.Kesteloot & P.Mistiaen European Cities: Neighbourhood Matters; A.Murie, S.Musterd & C.Kesteloot References Index
About the author
ALBERTA ANDREOTTI Researcher and Sociologist, Department of Sociology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
JUSTIN BEAUMONT Researcher in Urban Planning, Department of Planning, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
JOOS DROOGLEEVER FORTUIJN Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
HARTMUT HAEUSSERMANN Professor of Sociology, Department of Urban and Regional Sociology, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
ANDREAS KAPPHAN Urban Sociologist, Bureau SMS, Berlin, Germany
MARTIN KRONAUER Professor of Sociology, Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft Berlin, Germany
PETER LEE Researcher, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham, UK
PASCALE MISTIAEN Researcher, Institute of Social and Economic Geography, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
ENRICA MORLICCHIO Professor of Sociology, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
PETER NOLLER Urban Sociologist, Institute for Sociology, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
RIETTE OOSTHUIZEN Researcher, Office for Public Management, UK
WIM OSTENDORF Associate Professor of Urban Geography, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ELISE PALOMARES Researcher, National Demographic Institute, Paris, France
ENRICO PUGLIESE Professor of Sociology, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
PATRICK SIMON Researcher in Social Science, National Demographic Institute, Paris, France
RONALD VAN KEMPEN Professor of Urban Geography, Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht, UtrechtUniversity, The Netherlands
INGE VAN NIEUWENHUYZE Researcher, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium
BERTHOLD VOGEL Sociologist, Institute for Social Research, Hamburg, Germany
JAN VRANKEN Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
Neighbourhoods of Poverty is concerned with the spatial dimension of urban social exclusion and integration. It draws on research from twenty-two neighbourhoods in eleven European cities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Antwerp, London, Birmingham, Berlin, Hamburg, Milan, Naples and Paris and addresses two questions:
- How do different neighbourhoods have an impact upon the opportunities and perspectives of poor individuals and households?
- Are these neighbourhood impacts conditioned by national and welfare state contexts, by the wider metropolitan structures and by specific neighbourhood characteristics?
Various aspects of poverty, social exclusion and integration are brought together and provide a new assessment of the place of neighbourhood within these wider debates.
