ABSTRACT
Increasing recognition of widening inequalities and awareness of the spatiality of disadvantage have contributed to a renewed interest in the role of place-based factors and neighbourhood effects in shaping processes of social exclusion and inclusion. Indeed, the current focus on neighbourhoods incorporates innovative policy approaches that stress greater policy integration and coordination together with a rejuvenated emphasis on joined-up solutions, community participation, partnership and empowerment as a means of improving policy delivery and outcomes. This chapter explores these challenges in relation to recent changes in neighbourhood regeneration policies in Spain and the implications for developing integrative dynamics in deprived neighbourhoods. First, the chapter examines the re-emergence of neighbourhood as a relevant analytical and policy scale. Then it discusses changing policy agendas in neighbourhood regeneration. The chapter also presents the evolution of neighbourhood policies in Spain and the emergence of alternative, innovative schemes during the last decade. Finally, it discusses social innovation in neighbourhood regeneration in Trinitat Nova.
