This article considers mixed community strategies, enacted through planning and regeneration policies, as a policy approach to the improvement of educational outcomes in schools. Analysis is undertaken of educational outcomes across secondary schools in Glasgow. The level of owner occupation in the catchment is positively associated with both examination results at S4 and positive destinations post-school, particularly at the more deprived end of the school spectrum. The results suggest that tenure mix may be both directly and indirectly related to school performance, with neighbourhood context effects not being entirely mediated through the school context.

In 19century Vienna was bounded by topographic elements of the hilly landscape and marsh land. Therefore,it could not easily spread and the regrading of the townscape was undertaken. Thus far, these aspects of historic urban planning have been relatively unexamined; this paper offers some essential findings.Grading adjustments occurred in the course of the two major city extensions or was triggered by infrastructural installation work. Further levelling was engaged-and organised by building codes-in order to improve traffic flow and for flood mitigation. The latter became the most effective intervention as it fundamentally restructured all low-lying districts.