TY  - CHAP
AU  - van Ham, Maarten
AU  - Marcińczak, Szymon
AU  - Tammaru, Tiit
AU  - Musterd, Sako
AB  - Growing inequalities in Europe, even in the most egalitarian countries, are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competive- ness of European cities. Surprisingly, though, there is a lack of systematic and representative research on the spatial dimension of rising inequalities. This gap is filled by our book project Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: East Meets West, with empirical evidence from Amsterdam, Athens, Budapest, London, Madrid, Milan, Oslo, Prague, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn, Vienna and Vilnius. This introductory chapter outlines the background to this interna- tional comparative research and introduces a multi-factor approach to studying socio-economic segregation. The chapter focuses on four underlying universal structural factors: social inequalities, global city status, welfare regime and the housing system. Based on these factors, we propose a hypothetical ranking of segregation levels in the thirteen case study cities. As the conclusions of this book show, the hypothetical ranking and the actual ranking of cities by segregation levels only match partly; the explanation for this can be sought in context-specific factors which will be discussed in-depth in each of the case study chapters.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 615512
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030818113
KW  - inequalities
KW  - european cities
KW  - urban communities
KW  - growing inequalities
KW  - europe
KW  - inequalities
KW  - european cities
KW  - urban communities
KW  - growing inequalities
KW  - europe
KW  - Budapest
KW  - Eastern Europe
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Prague
KW  - Residential segregation in the United States
KW  - Socioeconomics
KW  - Stockholm
KW  - Tallinn
KW  - Vienna
KW  - Vilnius
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/ca59422e-04f8-4b84-91bb-9203ac2140c1/615512.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32143
PB  - Taylor & Francis
PY  - 2015
SN  - 9781315758879;9781317637486
TI  - Chapter 1 A multi-factor approach to understanding socio-economic segregation in European capital citiesnull
ER  - 
