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CASEreport

City of Walbrzych: Technical Assistance for Mitigating the Social and Economic Challenges of The City

Maciej Borsa, Aleksandra Jadach-Sepiolo and Bert Provan

This report addresses options for city renewal in the medium sized, but shrinking, Polish city of Walbrzych. It provides an overview of the impact of the rapid closure of the mining industry in the mid-1990s, in terms o...Read more...

6 August 2020

SPCC Research Report

The Changing Anatomy of Economic Inequality in London (2007-2013)

Polly Vizard, Polina Obolenskaya, Eleni Karagiannaki, Jack Cunliffe, Stephanie Thomson, Chris Grollman and Ruth Lupton

In this report we examine changing patterns of inequality in London over the period 2007-2013. We examine how the distribution of key economic outcomes - including income and wealth, employment and unemployment, earnings...Read more...

23 March 2015

SPCC Working Paper

The Coalition's Record on Area Regeneration and Neighbourhood Renewal: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015

Ruth Lupton and Amanda Fitzgerald

In the decade to 2010, substantial progess had been made to improve living conditions, and outcomes in the poorest neighbourhoods. But large gaps remained. This paper looks at how the Coalition tackled this issue, and wh...Read more...

26 January 2015

SPCC Research Note

Hard Times, New Directions? The Impact of Local Government Spending Cuts in London (Interim Report Summary)

Amanda Fitzgerald and Ruth Lupton

Key Points: London local government has taken a 33 per cent real terms cut in service funding from central government between 2009/10 and 2013/14. Councils have been making strenuous efforts to make large savings without...Read more...

15 May 2014

SPCC Working Paper

Small-area measures of income poverty

Alex Fenton

This paper considers techniques for measuring the prevalence of income poverty within small areas, or “neighbourhoods”, in Britain. The ultimate purpose is applying such statistics to investigating how the micro-spatial ...Read more...

21 August 2013

SPCC Working Paper

Labour's Record on Neighbourhood Renewal in England: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 1997-2010

Ruth Lupton, Alex Fenton and Amanda Fitzgerald

When he came to power in 1997, Tony Blair reacted to widening disparities between poorer and richer neighbourhoods by declaring that no one in future decades should be seriously disadvantaged by where they lived. What po...Read more...

1 July 2013

SPCC Research Note

Urban Area and Hinterland: Defining Large Cities in England, Scotland and Wales in terms of their constituent neighbourhoods

Alex Fenton

This note describes a method for defining the 'core urban area' and 'hinterland' of large and metropolitan cities in Britain. The definitions are made in terms of small-area ('neighbourhood') geographies used in standard...Read more...

24 June 2013

SPCC Research Note

Post-censal household estimates for small areas

Alex Fenton

The Censuses of Population in the constituent countries of the UK provide counts of households at small area level and above every 10 years. All four countries in the UK also produce annual household projections and esti...Read more...

24 June 2013

CASEpaper

Small-area measures of income poverty

Alex Fenton

20 May 2013

CASEpaper

Are there neighbourhood effects on teenage parenthood in the UK, and does it matter for policy? A review of theory and evidence

Ruth Lupton and Dylan Kneale

This paper is a forerunner to an empirical study of neighbourhood effects on teenage parenthood using the British Cohort Study (BCS70). It reviews evidence for the existence of such effects within the quantitative 'neigh...Read more...

September 2010

CASEreport

An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK - Report of the National Equality Panel

John Hills

Britain is an unequal country, more so than many other industrial countries and more so than a generation ago. This is manifest in many ways - most obviously in the gap between those who are well off and those who are le...Read more...

January 2010

CASEpaper

Neighbourhood Management and the Future of Urban Areas

Anne Power

This paper is about low-income neighbourhoods, their organisation and management. It is not a study in deprivation, but is about problem-solving, about the reforms in delivery underway in Britain, about long run attempts...Read more...

January 2004

CASEpaper

Schools in Disadvantaged Areas: Recognising context and raising quality

Ruth Lupton

Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower in disadvantaged areas than others and much recent policy attention has been focused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring the rela...Read more...

January 2004

CASEpaper

'Neighbourhood Effects': Can we measure them and does it matter?

Ruth Lupton

Renewed interest in disadvantaged neighbourhoods is generating increasing research activity. Current work includes qualitative community studies and quantitative investigations of area effects on individual outcomes. Thi...Read more...

November 2003

CASEpaper

Is Targeting Deprived Areas an Effective Means to Reach Poor People? An assessment of one rationale for area-based funding programmes

Rebecca Tunstall and Ruth Lupton

Area-based programmes have long been a feature of urban policy in the UK. One rationale is that they are an effective means to target poor people. Area deprivation indices are used to identify areas for targeting. This p...Read more...

June 2003

CASEpaper

Growing Up: School, family and area influences on adolescents' later life chances

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner and Carol Propper

This paper explores the links between school, family and area background influences during adolescence and later adult economic outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on data covering the period 1979 to 1996, drawn fr...Read more...

September 2001

CASEpaper

Social Exclusion and the Future of Cities

Anne Power and William Julius Wilson

In both Britain and the United States, people have been moving away from the inner cities to suburban developments, often leaving behind concentrations of poverty and decaying neighbourhoods. Anne Power's paper focuses o...Read more...

February 2000

CASEpaper

Neighbourhood Management

Anne Power and Emmet Bergin

The way we run urban neighbourhoods in Britain is a key to reversing social exclusion, crime and poor performance on almost every front in our cities. This study for the Social Exclusion Unit of seven models of neighbour...Read more...

December 1999

CASEpaper

Area-based Initiatives: The rationale and options for area targeting

Gillian R Smith

This paper explores the rationale for area targeting and the growth of new area-based initiatives. The author examines the geographical concentration of deprivation, the extent, and whether there is a polarisation betwee...Read more...

May 1999