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 …

importance of neighbourhood stability. However, amongst the vast number of studies on the effect of neighbours on a child …'s education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of … residential turnover on student test score gains. We show that high neighbourhood turnover reduces value added for students who …

infrastructure and services and intra-urban variation in residents level of neighbourhood confidence in Abeokuta Nigeria. The ….4 in the older, newer and GRA residential areas. Similarly, the mean neighbourhood confidence indices for the older …

The literature on intergenerational contextual mobility has shown that neighbourhood status is partly "inherited" from … neighbourhoods also as adults. It has been suggested that such transmission of neighbourhood status also is relevant from multiple … similarities in neighbourhood status of three generations of Swedish women. Findings suggest that the neighbourhood environments of …

This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue … that a team's performance in terms of scored and conceded goals decreases with the distance to the foreign playing venue … Deutsche Bundesliga') between the playing seasons 1986-87 and 2006-07. We find that distance increases a guest team …