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The importance of housing and neighbourhood resources for urban microbusinesses

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2016
Author
Reuschke, Darja
Houston, Donald
Keywords
Home-based business
Informal businesses
Microbusinesses
Neighbourhoods
Housing
Home
H Social Sciences
HF Commerce
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Economic research has rarely considered the significance of the home and neighbourhood context of where business owners’ live for their business. Conversely, urban and neighbourhood research has overlooked how housing and neighbourhood shape business and entrepreneurship outcomes. This paper investigates the importance of housing and neighbourhood resources for microbusinesses using a random sample of microbusinesses in Edinburgh (UK) including those that are informal and home-based, and various characteristics of the neighbourhood in which the business owner lives were attached to the survey records. The data capture whether business owners have business premises outside their homes, have used neighbourhood contacts, housing equity or space in the house for their business. In short, housing and neighbourhood resources are used by a large majority (82%) of microbusinesses. The findings challenge a number of common assumptions on the separation of commercial and residential functions, how neighbourhoods feature in the evolution of businesses, the nested conceptualisation of home within a neighbourhood and on the nature of home-based businesses. It is concluded that multi-use (rather than mixed-use) neighbourhood planning would help foster more flexible and dynamic use of neighbourhoods and urban districts, although recognising that this is a political issue.
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Reuschke , D & Houston , D 2016 , ' The importance of housing and neighbourhood resources for urban microbusinesses ' , European Planning Studies , vol. 24 , no. 6 , pp. 1216-1235 . https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2016.1168364
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European Planning Studies
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2016.1168364
ISSN
0965-4313
Type
Journal article
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© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8730

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