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    Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality

    A Global Perspective

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    Contributor(s)
    van Ham, Maarten (editor)
    Tammaru, Tiit (editor)
    Ubarevičienė, Rūta (editor)
    Janssen, Heleen (editor)
    Collection
    European Research Council (ERC); EU collection
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a unique global overview of segregation trends based on case studies by local author teams. The book shows important global trends in segregation, and proposes a Global Segregation Thesis. Rising inequalities lead to rising levels of socio-economic segregation almost everywhere in the world. Levels of inequality and segregation are higher in cities in lower income countries, but the growth in inequality and segregation is faster in cities in high-income countries. This is causing convergence of segregation trends. Professionalisation of the workforce is leading to changing residential patterns. High-income workers are moving to city centres or to attractive coastal areas and gated communities, while poverty is increasingly suburbanising. As a result, the urban geography of inequality changes faster and is more pronounced than changes in segregation levels. Rising levels of inequality and segregation pose huge challenges for the future social sustainability of cities, as cities are no longer places of opportunities for all.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48225
    Keywords
    Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns); Social Structure, Social Inequality; Economic Geography; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology; Human Geography; Demography; Urban Geography and Urbanism; Social Structure; Economic Sociology; Population and Demography; Socio-Economic Segregation; Residential Segregation; Dissimiliarity Index; Income Inequality; Occupational Categories; Socio-Economic Groups; GINI-index; Large Cities / Metropoles; Neighbourhood Change; Open Access Book; Urban & municipal planning; Social & ethical issues; Sociology: work & labour; Population & demography
    DOI
    10.1007/978-3-030-64569-4
    ISBN
    9783030645694, 9783030645694
    Publisher
    Springer Nature
    Publisher website
    https://www.springernature.com/gp/products/books
    Publication date and place
    2021
    Grantor
    • FP7 Ideas: European Research Council - 615159 Research grant informationFind all documents
    • Estonian Research Competency Council
    Imprint
    Springer
    Series
    The Urban Book Series,
    Classification
    Urban and municipal planning and policy
    Social and ethical issues
    Economic geography
    Sociology: work and labour
    Human geography
    Population and demography
    Pages
    523
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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