The Geography of Economic Segregation

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta

doi:10.3390/socsci7080123

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“…Moretti (2012) and Sassen (1991Sassen ( , 2014 postulated that post-industrial economies in global cities go together with a concentration of the high-paid and low paid workers. Because of the transition from a manufacturing-based economy to a post-industrial economy characterized by a knowledge-based economy, the composition of the employed population changed (Burgers & Musterd, 2002;Florida, 2002;Hamnett, 2003;Van der Waal & Burgers, 2009) and spatial segregation of the employed population increased (Boterman et al, 2018;Florida & Mellander, 2018). Economic activities requiring face-to-face contact, such as in the financial, creative, and public sectors, have increased in the core of larger cities, whereas labor-intensive manufacturing in smaller towns and cities has declined over the years.…”

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“…Several scholars showed how post-industrial economies in global cities go together with a concentration of high-paid and low paid workers. And thus, there is growing evidence that occupation is another important dimension of human capital with consequences for social and spatial inequality (Boterman et al, 2018;Boterman & Musterd, 2017;Florida & Mellander, 2018). In short, spatial inequality is increasingly based on other combinations of different forms of human capital besides income and ethnicity.…”

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Multiple dimensions of residential segregation. The case of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam

2020

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In this contribution, we analyze residential segregation not just on the basis of dimenions of migration background and income but also according to educational level, class fractions, labor market status, and the employment sector. We use individual-level geocoded data for the entire population of the Metropolitan Area of Amsterdam to analyze residential orientations of households at eight different neighborhood types based on different levels of social mix, taking into account their employment sector, their age, educational attainment, income, type of contract, and migration background. We find that segregation based on income is relatively moderate but segregation on the basis of migration background and educational attainment level is relatively high. Multinomial regression models show that different class fractions are oriented to very different residential milieus. We conclude that a combination of dimensions of social positions yields a more nuanced and better conceptual framework for understanding the social geographies of urban areas.

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Multiple dimensions of residential segregation. The case of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam

2020

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“…The “urban paradox” is that cities with concentrated populations are places with conspicuous benefits, but also many emerging challenges (Florida & Mellander, 2018; Glaeser, 2014). The larger the city, the more possibilities exist and the higher the economic activity.…”

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Knowledge creation and mobility in and through futures workshops

Heino

2021

Futures & Foresight Science

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Participatory futures workshops are commonly used to create future-oriented knowledge. It is essential to understand how to manage futures knowledge to benefit from it and utilize it; however, it is unclear how the knowledge creation process is developed in futures workshops and how the created futures knowledge is mobilized by participants. These questions were answered by an empirical study using participant observation and interview methods. The results showed that futures knowledge is socially constructed through several processes, but individually interpreted, and that individual understanding and personal contacts are vital for knowledge mobilization.

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“…The importance of public space is in the manifestation of social relations and is a social relation itself (Florida & Mellander, 2018;Koolhaas, 1998). Although accelerating urbanisation can have a significant impact on the spatial outcomes of economic activity and inequalities, it affects social inclusion in urban areas in contradictory ways (Chouinard, 1997;Lefebvre, 1974).…”

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The unplanned city: Public space and the spatial character of urban informality

Lehmann

2020

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The 'unplannable' is a welcomed exception to the formal order of urban planning. This opinion article explores some examples of informal urbanism and discusses its ambiguous relationship to public space and unplanned activities in the city. The informal sector offers important lessons about the adaptive use of space and its social role. The article examines the ways specific groups appropriate informal spaces and how this can add to a city's entrepreneurship and success. The characteristics of informal, interstitial spaces within the contemporary city, and the numerous creative ways in which these temporarily used spaces are appropriated, challenge the prevalent critical discourse about our understanding of authorised public space, formal place-making and social order within the city in relation to these informal spaces. The text discusses various cases from Chile, the US and China that illustrate the dilemma of the relationship between informality and public/private space today. One could say that informality is a deregulated self-help system that redefines relationships with the formal. Temporary or permanent spatial appropriation has behavioural, economic and cultural dimensions, and forms of the informal are not always immediately obvious: they are not mentioned in building codes and can often be subversive or unexpected, emerging in the grey area between legal and illegal activities.

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The Geography of Economic Segregation

Cited by 19 publications

References 52 publications

Multiple dimensions of residential segregation. The case of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam

Multiple dimensions of residential segregation. The case of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam

Knowledge creation and mobility in and through futures workshops

The unplanned city: Public space and the spatial character of urban informality

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