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Neighbours and Neighbourhoods

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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. (2018). Neighbours and Neighbourhoods. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2400

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