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

✍ Scribed by Tiit Tammaru, Szymon Marcińczak, Maarten van Ham, Sako Musterd

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 415
• Series: Regions and Cities
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Front Matter
Regions and Cities
Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Preface
1 A multi-factor approach to understanding socio-economic segregation in European capital cities
Abstract
Introduction
Literature review: structural factors shaping socio-economic segregation
Eastern Europe: central planning and the socialist city
Contextual approach to residential segregation
Multi-factor framework of the study
Data and methods
Main findings: introduction to the book chapters
Conclusions
Notes
References
2 Occupational segregation in London: A multilevel framework for modelling segregation
Abstract
Introduction
Context: London the tri-polar city
Data and methods
Occupational segregation in London: 2001 to 2011
New approaches to segregation
Discussions and further analysis
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
3 Changing welfare context and income segregation in Amsterdam and its metropolitan area
Abstract
Introduction
Framing the dynamics of socio-economic segregation
Data and methods
Empirical section 1: questions 1 and 2
Empirical section 2: questions 3 and 4
Discussion and conclusions
Notes
References
4 Socio-economic segregation in Vienna: A social-oriented approach to urban planning and housing
Abstract
Introduction
Segregation research in Vienna
The transformation of society and patterns of segregation in Vienna, 2001–2011
Structural differentiation of the city: factorial analysis
Conclusion
Notes
References
5 Widening gaps: Segregation dynamics during two decades of economic and institutional change in Stockholm
Abstract
Introduction
Underpinnings of residential segregation
Data, definitions and classifications
Context for understanding change in residential segregation in Stockholm: population change, economic restructuring and policy shifts
Change in segregation patterns
Discussion and conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
6 Economic segregation in Oslo: Polarisation as a contingent outcome
Abstract
Introduction
The political context: welfare and housing
Spatial differences in socio-economic status: debate and research
Data and methods
Measures of inequality and segregation
Individual and household inequality
Economic segregation
Immigration and economic segregation
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
Notes
References
7 Socio-economic segregation in Athens at the beginning of the twenty-first century
Abstract
Introduction
Athens: an overview of urbanization and social geography in the post-war period
Housing structures and residential segregation
Social segregation in the 1990s
Occupational data and spatial units
Social segregation in the 2000s
Concluding remarks
Appendix
Acknowledgements
Note
References
8 Socio-economic divisions of space in Milan in the post-Fordist era
Abstract
Introduction
Socio-demographic profile of Milan
Data and methods
Results
Conclusions
Notes
References
9 Economic crisis, social change and segregation processes in Madrid
Abstract
Introduction
Social effects of the expansion and bursting of the housing bubble
Data and methods
Residential segregation in the Madrid Metropolitan Area (2001–2011)
Conclusions
Appendices
References
10 Urban restructuring and changing patterns of socio-economic segregation in Budapest
Abstract
Introduction
Inequalities and socio-economic segregation in Budapest before 1990
Factors influencing socio-economic segregation in Budapest after 1990
Methodological framework
Main research findings
Discussion and conclusions
Note
References
11 The velvet and mild: Socio-spatial differentiation in Prague after transition
Abstract
Introduction
Historical context of socio-spatial differentiation in Prague
Developments after the Velvet Revolution
Methodological framework
Research findings
Discussion and conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
12 Occupation and ethnicity: Patterns of residential segregation in Riga two decades after socialism
Abstract
Introduction
Setting the scene
Data and methods
Results
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
13 Large social inequalities and low levels of socio-economic segregation in Vilnius
Abstract
Introduction
Specific historical and geographical features
The contemporary housing market in Vilnius
Socio-economic segregation in Lithuania
Data and methods
The housing zones of Vilnius
Labour market and occupational structure
Occupational segregation in Vilnius according to the global indices
Changing local patterns of segregation
Conclusions and discussion
Acknowledgments
References
14 The ‘market experiment’: Increasing socio-economic segregation in the inherited bi-ethnic context of Tallinn
Abstract
Introduction
Setting the scene: social transformations, housing and residential segregation in Tallinn
Data and methods
Socio-economic segmentation: deepening ethnic divide in occupational structure
Socio-economic segregation: ethnic divide is increasingly projected spatially
The geography of segregation
Discussion and conclusions
Acknowledgements
In memoriam
Notes
References
15 Inequality and rising levels of socio-economic segregation: Lessons from a pan-European comparative study
Abstract
Introduction
Class and space in the European city
Economic disparities, globalisation, institutions and segregation
Conclusions and new perspectives
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Index