Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index.
The spatial dimensions of urban social exclusion and integration / Sako Musterd and Alan Murie -- Berlin : opportunities, constraints and strategies of the urban poor / Andreas Kapphan and Hartmut Häussermann -- Antwerp : confronting the social and spatial / Inge van Nieuwenhuyze and Jan Vranken -- Amsterdam : gender and poverty / Wim Ostendorf and Joos Droogleever Fortuijn -- Hamburg : contradicting neighbourhood effects on poverty / Martin Kronauer, Peter Noller and Berthold Vogel -- Milan : urban poverty in a wealthy city / Alberta Andreotti -- Rotterdam : social contacts in poor neighbourhoods / Ronald van Kempen -- Paris : neighbourhood identity as a resource for the urban poor / Elise Palomares and Patrick Simon -- London : deprivation, social isolation and regeneration / Justin Beaumont -- Birmingham : narratives of neighbourhood transition / Peter Lee, Alan Murie and Riette Oosthuizen -- Naples : unemployment and spatial exclusion / Enrica Morlicchio and Enrico Pugliese -- Brussels : neighbourhoods as generators of integration / Christian Kesteloot and Pascale Mistiaen -- European cities : neighbourhood matters / Christian Kesteloot, Alan Murie and Sako Musterd