| Titre | Who lives in deprived areas in British cities ? / Qui habite les quartiers de grande pauvreté des villes britanniques ? | |
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| Auteur | Paul White | |
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Revue | Géocarrefour |
| Numéro | volume 75, no -2, 2000 Questions de banlieues | |
| Page | 107-116 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Issues of urban deprivation have played an important role in policy discussion in Britain since the 1970s. Government and various official agencies have adopted statistical approaches to the identification of deprived areas, based on census data for the construction of standart indices. One of these indices (the Townsend Index) is here applied to four major British cities (London, Birmingham, Newcastle- upon-Tyne and Sheffield) and, in each case, it is demonstrated that there is a strong contrast between high deprivation levels in inner city nighbourhoods and relative affluence throughout the suburbs. The populations of deprived areas are shown to include over-representations of those with poor health, families with dependants, lone-parent families, large families, unskilled workers, and those declaring a non- white ethnicity. The elderly were shown not to be concentrated in zones of deprivation. The greatest over-representations were of single parent families. There were certain variations between the cities : in both Newcastle and Sheffield deprived zones included few non-white residents, while the over-representation of families with dependants, of large families and of the unskilled in deprived areas was greater in Birmingham than elsewhere. Both the spatial location and the population composition of deprived areas are different from those experienced in certain other parts of Europe. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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