Book Details

Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality A Global Perspective

Publication year: 2021

: 978-3-030-64569-4

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This 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.


: History / Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns) / Social Structure, Social Inequality / Economic Geography / Organizational Studies, Economic / Sociology / Human Geography / 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