Objective Structural and social neighbourhood constructs have been developed for studying a neighbourhood’s influence on a variety of health outcomes; community surveys are being increasingly used for capturing such ...

Contrary to the idea that neighbourhood cohesion is something that inherently benefits the poor or counterbalances the forces of social exclusion, in this article we argue that it can also function as a mechanism of ...

This study compares the health and socio-demographic characteristics of residentially mobile families with young children in England to families that do not move and assesses the impact of their moves upon inequalities in ...

A process of urban metamorphosis is under way in many inner-city neighbourhoods across Latin America. The theoretical framework of new-build gentrification reveals the multiple dimensions of this process, which seems to ...

This study compares the health and socio-demographic characteristics of residentially mobile families with young children in England to families that do not move and assesses the impact of their moves upon inequalities in ...

São Paulo State, in Brazil, is getting increasingly crowded, like in other third world countries around the world, so should give great importance to city development. This work considered the phenomenon of closed ...

In this paper we shall discuss some classes of general monotonic neighbourhood frames, or general m-frames. We shall study the classes of point-compact, image compact and replete general m-frames, and the relationships ...

In this paper we shall discuss properties of saturation in monotonic neighbourhood models and study some applications, like a characterization of compact and modally saturated monotonic models and a characterization of the ...