Blokland, T. (2003). Urban bonds: social relationships in an inner city neighbourhood. Cambridge, UK, Polity.
This is an ethnographic study of the changing nature of social relationships and urban communities, focusing on a poor multi-ethnic neighbourhood in Rotterdam. The author examines the role of the neighbourhood in our understanding of community and how this has changed over the last century. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and including rich ethnographic as well as historical research, she offers a multidimensional analysis of relations between neighbours, arguing that neighbour relations include a cross-section of social relations, including bonds, transactions, interdependencies and attachments.