Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality

Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality
Author: Maarten van Ham
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2021-03-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 303064569X

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.

Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century

Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century
Author: D. Rodgers
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2012-10-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137035137

By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world.

Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South

Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South
Author: Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2016-05-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317085329

Contending that everyday sociability and social networks are central elements to an understanding of urban poverty, Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South draws on detailed research conducted in São Paulo in an examination of the social networks of individuals who identify as poor. The book uses a multi-methods approach not only to test the importance of networks, but also to disentangle the effects of networks and segregation and to specify the relational and spatial mechanisms associated with the production of poverty. It thus explores the different types of network that exist amongst the metropolitan poor, the conditions that shape and influence them, their consequences for the production of poverty and the mechanisms through which networks influence daily living conditions. A rigorous examination of poverty in a contemporary megacity, Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South will appeal to sociologists, political scientists and geographers with interests in urban studies, poverty and segregation and social networks.

The Sustainable City IV

The Sustainable City IV
Author: C. A. Brebbia
Publisher: WIT Press
Total Pages: 849
Release: 2006
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1845640403

Urban areas produce a series of environmental problems arising from the consumption of natural resources and the consequent generation of waste and pollution. These problems contribute to the development of social and economic imbalances. All these problems, which continue to grow in our society, require new solutions. This book addresses the many inter-related aspects of the urban environment from transport and mobility to social exclusion and crime prevention. Publishing papers from the Fourth International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability, the volume includes topics such as: Strategy and Development; Planning; Development and Management; Environmental Management; Planning Issues; Socio-economic Issues; The community and the City; Cultural Heritage; Architectural Issues; Traffic and Transportation; Land Use and Management; Public Safety; Conservation of Resources; Sustainable Transportation and Transport Integration; Depleted Ecological Resources; Environmental Pollution; Energy Resources Systems.

La Dimensión Espacial en las Políticas de Superación de la Pobreza Urbana

La Dimensión Espacial en las Políticas de Superación de la Pobreza Urbana
Author:
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2003-07-25
Genre: City planning
ISBN: 9789213220849

Mediante este trabajo de investigación se aporta a la construcción de un marco conceptual que oriente el diseño de políticas territoriales para la superación de la pobreza urbana. Con ese propósito, se analizan algunas de las condiciones que afectan la eficacia y la eficiencia con que la autoridad pública puede contribuir al logro de esta meta. Este documento se ha dividido en dos secciones. En la primera se analizan las características actuales de la pobreza urbana. Luego en la segunda, se evalúan las virtudes y limitaciones de diversos niveles de centralización y descentralización para combatir la pobreza y apoyar los procesos de integración social.

International Handbook of Population Policies

International Handbook of Population Policies
Author: John F. May
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 863
Release: 2022-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031020405

This Handbook offers an array of internationally recognized experts’ essays that provide a current and comprehensive examination of all dimensions of international population policies. The book examines the theoretical foundations, the historical and empirical evidence for policy formation, the policy levers and modelling, as well as the new policy challenges. The section Theoretical Foundations reviews population issues today, population theories, the population policies’ framework as well as the linkages between population, development, health, food systems, and the environment. The next section Empirical Evidence discusses international approaches to design and implement population policies on a regional level. The section Policy Levers and Modelling reviews the tools and the policy levers that are available to design, implement, monitor, and measure the impact of population policies. Finally, the section New Policy Challenges examines the recurrent and emerging issues in population policies. This section also discusses prospects for demographic sustainability as well as future considerations for population policies. As such this Handbook provides an important and structured examination of contemporary population policies, their evolution, and their prospects.

Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South

Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South
Author: Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2016-05-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317085337

Contending that everyday sociability and social networks are central elements to an understanding of urban poverty, Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South draws on detailed research conducted in São Paulo in an examination of the social networks of individuals who identify as poor. The book uses a multi-methods approach not only to test the importance of networks, but also to disentangle the effects of networks and segregation and to specify the relational and spatial mechanisms associated with the production of poverty. It thus explores the different types of network that exist amongst the metropolitan poor, the conditions that shape and influence them, their consequences for the production of poverty and the mechanisms through which networks influence daily living conditions. A rigorous examination of poverty in a contemporary megacity, Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South will appeal to sociologists, political scientists and geographers with interests in urban studies, poverty and segregation and social networks.