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Understanding Neighbourhood Dynamics: New Insights for Neighbourhood Effects Research

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Non-random sorting of residents into neighbourhoods provides neighbourhood effects researchers with a major challenge: The neighbourhoods which people ‘choose’ reflect their incomes, and as a result neighbourhood characteristics are endogenous, causing bias in models of neighbourhood effects. So understanding neighbourhood choice and neighbourhood dynamics is at the heart of a better understanding of neighbourhood effects, but is also crucial for literatures on residential mobility, segregation, and neighbourhood change. This chapter offers a state-of-the-art overview of literature on neighbourhood dynamics. First, a range of theories regarding neighbourhood dynamics are discussed. Second, the chapter offers an extensive summary of the 11 other chapters in this book, with empirical contributions from the United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden, The Netherlands, and the USA. Through this overview, this chapter offers insight into the latest developments in research on neighbourhood dynamics.

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Notes

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    Not all households are free to choose where they live, with choice being mediated by tenures and financial means. For many tenants in the social sector there is very limited freedom of choice (see for example Manley and van Ham 2011; van Ham 2012).

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    This is written as (re)generation to signify that on many occasions the process of regeneration requires to wholesale removal of both the social and physical neighbourhood before rebuilding takes place and it is, therefore, more akin to the ‘generation’ of a new neighbourhood.

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  1. OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, 5030, 2600, GA Delft, The Netherlands

    Maarten van Ham

  2. School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1SS, UK

    David Manley

  3. Urban Studies, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8RS, Scotland, UK

    Nick Bailey

  4. The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR), School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, Humanities Bridgeford Street, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

    Ludi Simpson

  5. Centre for Housing Research, School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AL, UK

    Duncan Maclennan

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  1. , OTB Research Inst for the Built Environm, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 9, Delft, 2628 BX, Netherlands

    Maarten van Ham

  2. , School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1SS, United Kingdom

    David Manley

  3. , Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8RS, United Kingdom

    Nick Bailey

  4. , The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and S, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom

    Ludi Simpson

  5. , Centre for Housing Research, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, KY16 9AL, Fife, United Kingdom

    Duncan Maclennan

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van Ham, M., Manley, D., Bailey, N., Simpson, L., Maclennan, D. (2012). Understanding Neighbourhood Dynamics: New Insights for Neighbourhood Effects Research. In: van Ham, M., Manley, D., Bailey, N., Simpson, L., Maclennan, D. (eds) Understanding Neighbourhood Dynamics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4854-5_1

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