Your Life Chances Affect Where You Live: A Critique of the 'Cottage Industry' of Neighbourhood Effects Research

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 367-387

  Slater, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capitalist urbanization; Marxist urban theory; Neighbourhood effects; Residential mobility programs

Indexed keywords

MARXISM; MOBILITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; POVERTY; RESEARCH; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL THEORY; URBAN AREA; URBAN HOUSING; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84874396646     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2013.01215.x     Document Type: Article

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