Intra-Urban Spatial Inequality : Cities as "Urban Regions"

This paper explores spatial inequalities within cities: how they are generated, what characteristics they have, and how these spatial inequalities become persistent and self-perpetuating, embodying serious economic and social problems. This conceptual frame views cities as agglomerations of 'urban regions'--which exhibit significant spatial intra-urban inequalities, and where trends towards equality are constrained predominantly by labor immobility and land-use policies. One of the meta-insights of this paper is that urban problems are often made worse when they coexist and overlap in space. It shows how spatial inequalities are a structural cause of their own perpetuation, and to suggest policies that go beyond neighborhood interventions.

“Kilroy, Austin. 2009. Intra-Urban Spatial Inequality : Cities as "Urban Regions". © Washington, DC: World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/9144 License: CC BY 3.0 Unported.”

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