Print Email Facebook Twitter A multi-factor approach to understanding socio-economic segregation in European capital cities Title A multi-factor approach to understanding socio-economic segregation in European capital cities Author Tammaru, T. Musterd, S. Van Ham, M. Marcinczak, S. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department OTB Date 2015-08-12 Abstract The research leading to the results presented in this chapter has received funding from the Estonian Research Council (Institutional Research Grant IUT no. 2–17 on Spatial Population Mobility and Geographical Changes in Urban Regions); European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement no. 615159 (ERC Consolidator Grant DEPRIVEDHOODS, Socio-spatial Inequality, Deprived Neighbourhoods, and Neighbourhood Effects); and from the Marie Curie programme under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / Career Integration Grant no. PCIG10-GA-2011-303728 (CIG Grant NBHCHOICE, Neighbourhood Choice, Neighbourhood Sorting, and Neighbourhood Effects). Growing inequalities in Europe, even in the most egalitarian countries, are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities. Surprisingly, though, there is a lack of systematic and representative research on the spatial dimension of rising inequalities. This gap is filled by our book project Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: East Meets West, with empirical evidence from Amsterdam, Athens, Budapest, London, Madrid, Milan, Oslo, Prague, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn, Vienna and Vilnius. This introductory chapter outlines the background to this international comparative research and introduces a multi-factor approach to studying socio-economic segregation. The chapter focuses on four underlying universal structural factors: social inequalities, global city status, welfare regime and the housing system. Based on these factors, we propose a hypothetical ranking of segregation levels in the thirteen case study cities. As the conclusions of this book show, the hypothetical ranking and the actual ranking of cities by segregation levels only match partly; the explanation for this can be sought in context-specific factors which will be discussed in-depth in each of the case study chapters. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6373e614-9162-4b21-addb-6625bdb74479 Publisher Routledge ISBN 978-1-138-79493-1 Source Socio-economic segregation in European capital cities: East meets west / edited by Tiit Tammaru, Szymon Marci?czak, Maarten van Ham, Sako Musterd Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights (c) 2016 The Author(s) Files PDF 319111.pdf 321.67 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6373e614-9162-4b21-addb-6625bdb74479/datastream/OBJ/view