Examines the literature on social cohesion. Presentsa range of indicators that have been used to measure social cohesion.

This book shows the important links between social conditions and health and begins to describe the processes through which these health inequalities may be gen

This book examines how new dimensions of diversity and difference, so often debated in the national context, are emerging at the neighbourhood level.

Urban slum dwellers—especially in emerging-economy countries—are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature d