Research Catalog

Title

Economic segregation in England : causes, consequences and policy / Geoffrey Meen [and others].

Publication

Bristol : Policy Press, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Meen, Geoffrey P.
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Description

viii, 72 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm

Summary

One of the key objectives of government neighbourhood policy is to encourage a sustainable mix of tenures and incomes. This report addresses questions of why integration has been so difficult to achieve in practice and draws conclusions for future policy.

Subject

• Community development > England
• Housing policy > England
• Marginality, Social > England
• Migration, Internal > England
• Community development
• Ethnic relations
• Housing policy
• Marginality, Social
• Migration, Internal
• Bostadspolitik > England
• Segregation > England
• Social rörlighet > England
• England > Ethnic relations
• England

Note

• Supported by Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-58).

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts and methods -- 3. Are mixed communities desirable? : the poverty of place -- 4. The patterns of segregation in England -- 5. The dynamics of local housing markets -- 6. Migration and location -- 7. Explaining patterns of deprivation and segregation -- 8. Mixed communities : evidence from case studies -- 9. Golden rules for developing mixed communities -- App. 1. Thresholds in local house prices -- App. 2. The determinants of gross migration flows -- App. 3. The logit models of moving and location -- App. 4. The main equations of the simulation model -- App. 5. Details of the case studies

ISBN

• 1861348134
• 9781861348135

LCCN

2006411083

OCLC

• ocm65189933
• 65189933
• SCSB-9016102

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library