Spatial Scale and Neighbourhood Regeneration in England: A Case Study of Avon

Richard Harris and Ron Johnston
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Richard Harris: School of Computing, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd CF37 1DL, Wales

Environment and Planning C, 2003, vol. 21, issue 5, 651-662

Abstract: In England and Wales a number of recent urban policy initiatives have been targeted to the electoral ward geography, treating this spatial unit as equivalent to a geography of ‘neighbourhoods’. In this paper we question the assumption implicit to some neighbourhood regeneration schemes that marginalised and socially excluded populations are spatially concentrated at the ward scale. Adopting a recently developed procedure used in studies of ethnic residential segregation, we argue that neighbourhood funding at such a scale is unlikely to be fully effective; what is required is a consistent, fine-scale geography for a fine scale in policy targeting.

Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1068/c0233

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