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 'ur...

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Main Author: Kilroy, Austin
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9144
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spelling okr-10986-91442021-04-23T14:02:44Z Intra-Urban Spatial Inequality : Cities as "Urban Regions" Kilroy, Austin World Development Report 2009 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. 2012-06-26T15:39:29Z 2012-06-26T15:39:29Z 2009 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9144 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Africa Latin America & Caribbean
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Intra-Urban Spatial Inequality : Cities as "Urban Regions"
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description 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.
author Kilroy, Austin
author_facet Kilroy, Austin
author_sort Kilroy, Austin
title Intra-Urban Spatial Inequality : Cities as "Urban Regions"
title_short Intra-Urban Spatial Inequality : Cities as "Urban Regions"
title_full Intra-Urban Spatial Inequality : Cities as "Urban Regions"
title_fullStr Intra-Urban Spatial Inequality : Cities as "Urban Regions"
title_full_unstemmed Intra-Urban Spatial Inequality : Cities as "Urban Regions"
title_sort intra-urban spatial inequality : cities as "urban regions"
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2012
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9144
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