Dargan L. Participation and local urban regeneration: the case of the New Deal for Communities (NDC) in the UK, Regional Studies. The contention of this paper is that the policy discourses of 'community' and of 'participation' underpinning area-based regeneration programmes are overly...

The starting point of the EDORA project was the recognition that, rather than becoming more uniform in character, rural Europe is, in many ways, becoming increasingly diverse, implying new challenges and opportunities. The project’s overarching aim was to examine the process of...

S<sc>hucksmith</sc> M., C<sc>ameron</sc> S., M<sc>erridew</sc> T. and P<sc>ichler</sc> F. Urban--rural differences in quality of life across the European Union, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper analyses the European Quality of Life Survey 2003 to explore urban--rural differences in income, deprivation, and other life domains. The main...