In urban renewal policy, it has become a widespread goal to revitalise neighbourhood economies. The rationale for these … objectives is to activate local inter-firm cooperation. This article examines the neighbourhood-related requirements and … commitment of small firms. It draws on the results of a case study incorporating five German cities in which the neighbourhood …

We test empirically whether people’s life satisfaction depends on their relative income position in the neighbourhood … position in the neighbourhood is. To test this theory we estimate micro-economic happiness models for the years 1994 and 1999 … with controls for own income and for neighbourhood income at the zip-code level (roughly 9,000 people). There exist no …