Disadvantaged by where you live? – Neighbourhood g overnance in contemporary ur…

Disadvantaged by where you live?Neighbourhood governance in contemporary urban policy\nAuthor(s): Ian Smith, Eileen Lepine, Marilyn Taylor\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Policy Press\nISBN-13: 9781861348951, 978-1861348951\nSynopsis\n\""Disadvantaged by where you live?\"" distils lessons from work on neighbourhoods carried out within the Cities Research Centre of the University of the West of England over the past seven years. It offers a major contribution to academic debates on the neighbourhood both as a sphere of governance and as a point of public service delivery under New Labour since 1997. \n\nThe book explores how 'the neighbourhood' has been used in policy in the UK; what the 'appropriate contribution' of neighbourhood governance is and how this relates to concepts of multi-level governance; the tensions that are visible at the neighbourhood level and what this tells us about wider governance issues.\n\nThe book explores and r.