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The concept of neighbourhood has long been a topic of popular discourse and a subject of academic interest. Despite this attention, there is little agreement on what the term ‘neighbourhood’ means. The American Heritage Dictionary (Pickett, 2000) simply defines a neighbourhood as ‘a district or an area with distinctive characteristics’.
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Ellen, I.G. (2008). Neighbours and Neighbourhoods. In: Durlauf, S.N., Blume, L.E. (eds) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-58802-2_1164
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