This rare interdisciplinary combination of research into neighbourhood dynamics and effects attempts to unravel the complex relationship between disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the life outcomes of the residents who live therein. It seeks to overcome the notorious difficulties of establishing an empirical causal relationship between living in a disadvantaged area and the poorer health and well-being often found in such places.

1: Understanding neighbourhood dynamics: new insights for neighbourhood effects research: Maarten van Ham, David Manley, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson and Duncan Maclennan.- 2: Understanding neighbourhood population dynamics for neighbourhood effects research: a review of recent evidence and data source developments: Nick Bailey, Helen Barnes, Mark Livingston and David Mclennan.- 3: The Causes of Long-Term Neighbourhood Change: Geoffrey Meen, Christian Nygaard and Julia Meen.- 4: How do mortgage lenders influence neighbourhood dynamics? Redlining and Predatory Lending: Manuel B. Aalbers.- 5: Urban restructuring, displaced households and neighbour-hood change: results from three Dutch cities: Hanneke Posthumus, Gideon Bolt and Ronald van Kempen.- 6: The effects of neighbourhood regeneration on the neighbourhood hierarchy of the city - A case study in Sweden: Åsa Bråmå.- 7: Neighbourhood social capital and residential mobility: Beate Volker, Gerald Mollenhorst, & Veronique Schutjens.- 8: Neighbourhood reputations, moving behaviour and neighbourhood dynamics: Matthieu Permentier.- 9: The components of socioeconomic neighbourhood change: an analysis of School Census data at varying spatial scales in England: Stephen Jivraj.- 10: How ethnic mix changes: typologising neighbourhood population dynamics of ethnic groups: Nissa Finney.- 11: Testing the racial proxy hypothesis: What is it that residents don't like about their neighbourhood?: Karien Dekker.- 12: Community Choice in Large Cities: Selectivity and Ethnic Sorting Across Neighbourhoods: William A.V. Clark and Natasha Rivers.