Urban inequalities in the 21st century economy

Nijman, Jan; Wei, Yehua Dennis

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102188

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“…As described, there are known social inequalities in access to food outlets selling food prepared away-from-home in England, with outlets selling this food more prevalent in more deprived neighbourhoods ( Maguire et al, 2015 ). Similar trends have also been described elsewhere ( Nijman & Wei, 2020 ). Whilst orders placed through online food delivery services are made through online platforms, food sold is typically prepared in the kitchens of food outlets that exist in or near the customer's neighbourhood, which facilitates rapid and efficient delivery ( Allen et al, 2017 ).…”

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Socioeconomic inequalities in food outlet access through an online food delivery service in England: A cross-sectional descriptive analysis

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Online food delivery services facilitate ‘online’ access to food outlets selling food prepared away-from-home. Online food outlet access has not previously been investigated in England or across an entire country. Systematic differences in online food outlet access could exacerbate existing health inequalities, which is a public health concern. However, this is not known. Across postcode districts in England (n = 2118), we identified and described the number of food outlets and unique cuisine types accessible online from the market leader (Just Eat). We investigated associations with area-level deprivation using adjusted negative binomial regression models. We also compared the number of food outlets accessible online with the number physically accessible in the neighbourhood (1600m Euclidean buffers of postcode district geographic centroids) and investigated associations with deprivation using an adjusted general linear model. For each outcome, we predicted means and 95% confidence intervals. In November 2019, 29,232 food outlets were registered to accept orders online. Overall, the median number of food outlets accessible online per postcode district was 63.5 (IQR; 16.0–156.0). For the number of food outlets accessible online as a percentage of the number accessible within the neighbourhood, the median was 63.4% (IQR; 35.6–96.5). Analysis using negative binomial regression showed that online food outlet access was highest in the most deprived postcode districts (n = 106.1; 95% CI: 91.9, 120.3). The number of food outlets accessible online as a percentage of those accessible within the neighbourhood was highest in the least deprived postcode districts (n = 86.2%; 95% CI: 78.6, 93.7). In England, online food outlet access is socioeconomically patterned. Further research is required to understand how online food outlet access is related to using online food delivery services.

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Socioeconomic inequalities in food outlet access through an online food delivery service in England: A cross-sectional descriptive analysis

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“…Notwithstanding of how urban sprawl is defined, theoretically distinct, characterized and measured, sprawl response often to disorienting sets of social, economic, political and environmental consequences (Nijman & Wei, 2020). Past scholar has long attended to issues of inequality and unsustainability at various scale, such social segregation, fiscal disparities, economic deprivation, employment discrepancies and so on.…”

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Is urban sprawl a threat to sustainable development? A review of characteristics and consequences

Yasin

Yusoff

Abdullah³

2020

GEOGRAFIA

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During recent decades, urban sprawl has been substantially debated in the literature, carrying significant social, economic and environment implications, much earlier than of sustainable development concept being introduced. Often, urban sprawl is defined in terms of undesirable development. Urban sprawl is also associated with negative urban expansion and excessive resource consumption. To mitigate urban sprawl, urban growth management has been timely implemented by understanding urbanization characteristics and their socio-environment and economic driving forces. While sustainable urban development is a highly developed spatial form of integrated cities, urban sprawl mostly occurred in lower densities accompanied by expansion of urban periphery, is acknowledged as the opposite force, with its character of scattered and leapfrogging development. Therefore, urban sprawl is the most impactful urban development patterns that occurred at an unprecedented rate that threaten sustainable development. This article examined the characteristics and the consequences of urban sprawl and how it affects sustainable development.

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“…Castells' (1999) 'doubleedged sword' of the 3IR -economic prosperity on the one hand, rising urban poverty, inequality and environmental degradation on the other -is extremely sharp. The erosion of the 'political and cultural middle' continues as intra-urban inequalities and residential segregation in large cities develop in a reciprocal relationship with digital inequality (Gilbert 2010;Nijman and Wei 2020;UN 2020). The digital economy, 'for all its vigor, growth and contributions to aggregate prosperity, has forged new spatial inequalities in and between cities .…”

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The Myth of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Moll

2021

Theoria

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This article argues that there is no such phenomenon as a Fourth Industrial Revolution. It derives a framework for the analysis of any industrial revolution from a careful historical account of the archetypal First Industrial Revolution. The suggested criteria for any socioeconomic transformation to be considered an industrial revolution are that it must encompass a technological revolution; a transformation of the labour process; a fundamental change in workplace relations; new forms of community and social relationships; and global socio-economic transformations. These transformations indeed characterise the Second and Third Industrial Revolutions. The aggregate of technical innovations in the latter is carefully examined, because this is a crucial part of determining whether we can meaningfully claim that a Fourth Industrial Revolution is underway. The article demonstrates that we cannot.

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Urban inequalities in the 21st century economy

Cited by 144 publications

References 102 publications

Socioeconomic inequalities in food outlet access through an online food delivery service in England: A cross-sectional descriptive analysis

Socioeconomic inequalities in food outlet access through an online food delivery service in England: A cross-sectional descriptive analysis

Is urban sprawl a threat to sustainable development? A review of characteristics and consequences

The Myth of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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