Given the neighbourhood focus of much regeneration policy, we need to know more about the functional roles that neighbourhoods play in the way that households move within the housing market and hence about the different functional types of neighbourhood amongst deprived areas. Such knowledge...

There is now a sustained interest in measuring geographical variation in social and economic circumstances in order to guide urban policy resource allocation decisions. The most recent attempt to measure local area deprivation in England has come through the government's Index of Multiple...

This paper explores the utility of concepts drawn from psychosocial theory as predictors of the proneness to mental distress among the residential population of a large suburban council estate (Wythenshawe, South Manchester). In this respect, items are selected and tested to form composite...