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Segregated by neighbourhoods: infrastructure differentials in an emerging Ghanaian city
This paper examines neighbourhoods water and sanitary infrastructure disparities using the example of a rapidly urbanising city in north-western...
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The (co-)production of arrival neighbourhoods. Processes governing housing markets in three german cities
In recent years, an emerging strand of research has focused on the role arrival neighbourhoods play for newcomers finding their footing in a new...
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Do Co-Ethnic Neighbourhoods Affect the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants? Longitudinal Evidence from Australia
Unlike the situation in other immigrant-receiving countries, the impact of co-ethnic neighbourhoods on immigrants’ life outcomes has been...
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Socioeconomic Variation in the Relationship Between Neighbourhoods’ Built Environments and the Spread of COVID-19 in Toronto, Canada
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic underscores the importance of place of residence as a determinant of health. Prior work has...
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Towards Resilient Cities and Neighbourhoods to Pandemics
This chapter summarises the valuable insights in the field of resilience-related innovations for cities and neighbourhoods to pandemics presented in...
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Residential satisfaction in deprived urban neighbourhoods: a case study of Harare’s selected informal settlements
This paper examines residential satisfaction and the factors that influence it within the context of Harare’s selected informal settlements (Hopley,...
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The Socio-Economic Status of Neighbourhoods and Access to Early Childhood Education
Good-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) has been shown to benefit children from low socio-economic backgrounds the most, starting from...
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The changing position of housing estate neighbourhoods in the Helsinki metropolitan area
This paper addresses the under-researched phenomena of investments in the private rental markets in disadvantaged suburbs in Finland. Despite the...
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Structural Inequalities, Neighbourhoods and Protecting Children
Child welfare inequalities, such as the differential chance that a child is taken into out-of-home care or has a disadvantaged experience in care or...
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Children’s Meanings of Third Places for Leisure in Jakarta’s Low-Income Neighbourhoods
In leisure studies, research investigating leisure meanings has focused mainly on the extent to which a particular experience satisfies an...
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Making the invisible segregation of diverse neighbourhoods visible
AbstractThere are not clear understandings of the mechanisms of diverse populations in Tehran although it is considered as one of the most diverse...
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Transition or Consolidation? The Role of Inner-City Neighbourhoods in the Integration of Immigrants in Brussels, Belgium
Ernest Burgess’ transition zone has become a classical concept in urban sociology and geography. Because of the development of inner-city...
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Neighbourhood Effects Influence the Commuting of the Poor in Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods of Hong Kong and Singapore
This chapter assumes that policies that lead to poverty and urban decay have contributed to producing neighbourhood effects. The policies that cause...
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Housing circumstances and quality of life among local and immigrant population in Norwegian neighbourhoods
This paper explores the relationship between the concept of quality of life (QoL) and housing circumstances among the immigrant and local population...
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Do access control features reduce perceived risk of property victimisation? Insights from residential neighbourhoods in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
Providing adequate safety and security for urban residents in major cities in Ghana has been a major challenge for local and national authorities. To...
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Measuring the exposure of Black, Asian and other ethnic groups to COVID-infected neighbourhoods in English towns and cities
Drawing on the work of The Doreen Lawrence Review—a report on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities...
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Plural Policing of Immigrant Neighbourhoods in Germany: An Understanding of the Concept and Resulting Recommendations for Action
With regard to the results of the research project Migration and Urban Security (migsst [Migration und Sicherheit in der Stadt – migsst]), the...
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Sanitation Solutions in Shanghai’s Older and Under-Serviced Inner-City Neighbourhoods
Many rapidly urbanising areas in the Global South are experiencing transitions in sanitation with varying sustainability outcomes. In this chapter,...
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Housing Values and the Residential Settlement of Migrants: Zooming in on Neighbourhoods in Italian Provincial Capitals
This study looks at the relationship between housing values (prices and rents) and the residential settlement of migrants in different neighbourhoods...
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Neighbourhoods and Workplaces: Are They Related to the Fertility of Immigrants and Their Descendants? A Register-Based Study of Finland, 1999–2014
An increasing number of studies point to the existence of fertility differences between immigrants and those who are native to the receiving...