Cover -- Disadvantaged by where you live? -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the contributors -- 1. Introduction: of neighbourhoods and governance -- Introduction -- Neighbourhood policy in the UK -- Making sense of neighbourhood governance -- Chapter summaries -- 2. Theories of 'neighbourhood' in urban policy -- Introduction: definitions and debates -- Neighbourhood and neighbourhood governance in English public policy -- Policy challenges -- Conclusion -- 3. Neighbourhood as a new focus for action in the urban policies of West European states -- Introduction -- Case studies of neighbourhood-based urban policy -- Neighbourhood-level programmes in France, Denmark and England -- Comparative perspective on involvement, governance and context -- 4. Under construction - the city-region and the neighbourhood: new actors in a system of multi-level governance? -- Introduction -- Why the city-region? -- Why the neighbourhood? -- The neighbourhood and new localism -- Conclusion -- 5. More local than local government: the relationship between local government and the neighbourhood agenda -- Introduction -- Size, democracy and local government -- Area management, participation and the rediscovery of neighbourhood poverty -- Politics, conflict and the rise of managerialism -- New Labour and the neighbourhood - a return to (new) localism? -- Narratives and choices - what next for local government and the neighbourhood? -- 6. Neighbourhoods, democracy and citizenship -- Forms of local democracy and citizenship -- UK policy on neighbourhoods, and the forms of democracy and citizenship implied -- Democracy in neighbourhoods: Neighbourhood Management Pathfinders and New Deal for Communities -- Conclusions -- 7. Community leadership cycles and neighbourhood governance -- Introduction -- Concepts of leadership and succession.

Methodology: identifying community leaders -- The community leadership cycle -- Community influence in neighbourhood governance -- Conclusion -- 8. Neighbourhood governance and diversity: the diverse neighbourhood -- Introduction -- Governance and partnerships in diverse neighbourhoods -- Representation and representatives -- Case study -- Discussion -- 9. Mainstreaming and neighbourhood governance: the importance of process, power and partnership -- Introduction -- Mainstreaming in current policy -- Mainstreaming and neighbourhood governance -- The evidence for mainstreaming -- Mainstreaming as a process over time -- Mainstreaming and the deployment of power -- Mainstreaming as process, power and partnership -- 10. Evaluation, knowledge and learning in neighbourhood governance: the case of the New Deal for Communities -- Introduction -- Academic debates on generating knowledge -- Policy debates on learning in neighbourhood renewal -- Generating evidence about neighbourhood programmes -- Case studies: the impact of knowledge generation at neighbourhood level -- Knowledge and social learning in neighbourhood renewal -- 11. The future of neighbourhoods in urban policy -- The significance of neighbourhood -- Developments in neighbourhood governance - site, space or sphere? -- Inherent tensions within neighbourhood governance -- The future potential of neighbourhood governance -- Glossary -- Index.