People's perceptions and experiences of living in lower-income British neighbourhoods.

This paper brings together six summaries focusing on key themes from interviews with residents in six lower-income neighbourhoods in Anglesey, Blackburn, Edinburgh, Knowsley, Grimsby and West London.

The summaries focus on the following themes:

• the relationship between work, place and identity;
• concepts of self-esteem and comparative poverty;
• patterns of residential mobility and immobility;
• the 'time-space biographies' of residents' daily lives;
• the relationship between neighbourhood infrastructure and social interaction;
• family, friends and neighbours' roles in social and support relationships;
• differential experiences of 'social mix'; and
• perceptions of neighbourhood change.