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Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities. While the levels of socio-economic segregation in European cities are still modest compared to some parts of the world, the poor are increasingly concentrating spatially within capital cities across Europe. An overlooked area of research, this book offers a systematic and representative account of the spatial dimension of rising inequalities in Europe.
This book provides rigorous comparative evidence on socio-economic segregation from 13 European cities. Cities include Amsterdam, Athens, Budapest, London, Milan, Madrid, Oslo, Prague, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn, Vienna and Vilnius. Comparing 2001 and 2011, this multi-factor approach links segregation to four underlying universal structural factors: social inequalities, global city status, welfare regimes and housing systems.
Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Chapter1+A+Multi-Factor+Approach.pdf
Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Chapter15+Inequality+and+Rising+Levels+of+Socio-Economic+Segregation.pdf
List of contents
1. A multi-factor approach to understanding socio-economic segregation in European capital cities 2. Occupational segregation in London: A multilevel framework for modelling segregation 3. Changing welfare context and income segregation in Amsterdam and its metropolitan area 4. Socio-economic segregation in Vienna: A social-oriented approach to urban planning and housing 5. Widening gaps: Segregation dynamics during two decades of economic and institutional change in Stockholm 6. Economic segregation in Oslo: Polarisation as a contingent outcome 7. Socio-economic segregation in Athens at the beginning of the twenty-first century 8. Socio-economic divisions of space in Milan in the post-Fordist era 9. Economic crisis, social change and segregation processes in 10. Urban restructuring and changing patterns of socio-economic segregation in Budapest 11. The velvet and mild: Socio-spatial differentiation in Prague after transition 12. Occupation and ethnicity: Patterns of residential segregation in Riga two decades after socialism 13. Large social inequalities and low levels of socio-economic segregation in Vilnius 14. The ‘market experiment’: Increasing socio-economic segregation in the inherited bi-ethnic context of Tallinn 15. Inequality and rising levels of socio-economic segregation: Lessons from a pan-European comparative study
About the author
Tiit Tammaru is a Professor of Urban and Population Geography and Head of the Centre for Migration and Urban Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
Szymon Marci?czak is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Urban Geography and Tourism, Lód?, Poland.
Maarten van Ham is Professor of Urban Renewal at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, and Professor of Geography at the University of St Andrews, UK.
Sako Musterd is Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Summary
While the levels of socio-economic segregation in European cities are still modest compared to some parts of the world, the poor are increasingly concentrating spatially within capital cities across Europe. This book offers a systematic and representative account of the spatial dimension of rising inequalities.
