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Neighbourhood Change and Deprivation in the Greater Manchester City-Region

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  • Stephen Hincks

    (School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, England)

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There is a long lineage in neighbourhood research that has underpinned sustained academic and policy interest in the UK centred on understanding how spatial ‘clusters’ of neighbourhood-based deprivation might be destabilised. This has seen the privileging of composite indices in the analysis of deprivation, which have been criticised for fostering a common perception that deprived neighbourhoods are homogeneous in terms of their compositions and underlying structures. Such indices have also been criticised for being ineffective at capturing temporal change, providing only static snapshots of deprivation at particular points in time. This paper focuses on patterns of deprived neighbourhood change in the Greater Manchester city-region between 2001 and 2007. It develops a typology of neighbourhood change that is triangulated with three complementary typologies capturing the socioeconomic and demographic compositions of deprived neighbourhoods; the functional roles played by deprived neighbourhoods in redistributing population through migration; and the spatial contexts in which deprived neighbourhoods are located. The analysis reveals that an overreliance on static indices to measure deprivation has long served to conceal complexities in the ways in which deprived neighbourhoods change, owing to their variable structures and contexts. It illustrates the danger that lies in treating all deprived neighbourhoods in the same way.

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  • Stephen Hincks, 2015. "Neighbourhood Change and Deprivation in the Greater Manchester City-Region," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 47(2), pages 430-449, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:47:y:2015:i:2:p:430-449
    DOI: 10.1068/a130013p
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