City Survivors: Bringing up Children in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods

Seen through the eyes of parents, mainly mothers, City survivors tells the eye-opening story of what it is like to bring up children in troubled city neighbourhoods. The book provides a unique insider view on the impact of neighbourhood conditions on family life and explores the prospects for families from the point of view of equality, integration, schools, work, community, regeneration and public services.

These 24 stories convey powerful messages from parents about the problems they want tackled, and the things that would help them. The main themes explored in the book are neighbourhood, community, family, parenting, incomers and locals, and the need for civic intervention.

The book offers original and in-depth qualitative evidence in a readable and accessible style that will be invaluable to policy makers, practitioners, university students, academics and general readers interested in the future of families in cities.