Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: East meets West

ISBN-13: 9781138794931 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 390 str.

Tiit Tammaru;Maarten Van Ham;Szymon Marcińczak

Opis

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. Hypothetical segregation levels derived from those factors are compared to actual segregation levels in all cities. Each chapter provides an in-depth and context sensitive discussion of the unique features shaping inequalities and segregation in the case study cities. The main conclusion of the book is that the spatial gap between the poor and the rich is widening in capital cities across Europe, which threatens to harm the social stability of European cities. This book will be a key reference on increasing segregation and will provide valuable insights to students, researchers and policy makers who are interested in the spatial dimension of social inequality in European cities. A PDF version of the introduction and conclusion are available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.

Spis treści

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