Disadvantaged by where you live? Neighbourhood governance in contemporary urban policy

摘要

The main theme of both books concerns the issue of neighbourhoods and the processes of their development and governance. A comparison between them is therefore particularly interesting, because this is a subject around which a wide debate has developed, from the point of view of both policy-makers and academics. The same notion of 'neighbourhood' is contested and not clearly defined; rather, both books take the definition of neighbourhood as 'complex, dynamic, multidimensional and subjective constructs, with identities and governance capacities that go beyond preconceived geographical or administrative boundaries'.