Cities at the Heart of Inequalities

Clementine Cottineau is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, and Chargée de recherche at CNRS, France. Her research focuses on models of urbanization and urban inequality.Denise Pumain is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. Her research focuses on theories and models of urban systems.

• Preface ixDenise PUMAIN and Clémentine COTTINEAUChapter 1. Major Models of the Spatial Organization of Urban Societies 1Clémentine COTTINEAU and Denise PUMAIN1.1. Historical evolution of the spatiality of social status markers in the city 21.2. Slums, informal settlements and shanty towns 121.3. Institutional segregation 161.4. Separations by choice 211.5. Mobility and unequal accessibility in urban space 261.6. Corrections and remedies 301.7. Conclusion 351.8. References 35Chapter 2. Land Rent and the Center--Periphery model 45Denise PUMAIN2.1. Introduction 452.2. Space and rent: the urban field 472.3. Variations of the urban field by city 582.4. Towards a complex explanatory construction of urban rent inequalities 642.5. Financialization of urban development and conflicts over land use? 672.6. Conclusion 722.7. References 72Chapter 3. Inequalities in Access to Urban Services 79Eugenia Doria VIANA CERQUEIRA3.1. Introduction 793.2. Urban services: definitions 813.3. Urban services and issues of socio-spatial inequality 823.4. Access to urban services: a plurality of dimensions 903.5. Conclusion 963.6. References 97Chapter 4. Gentrification and the Real Estate Market: What Can We Learn from the Rent Gap Theory? 105Guilhem BOULAY4.1. Introduction 1054.2. The theoretical basis for thinking about gentrification 1084.3. Apparent simplicity leads to great success 1124.4. Testing and quantifying the rent gap hypothesis 1184.5. What place for the rent gap theory in the geography of real estate? 1254.6. Conclusion 1294.7. Acknowledgments 1304.8. References 130Chapter 5. Socio-spatial Segregation in Cities 137Renaud LE GOIX5.1. Segregation in metropolises, renewed theoretical issues 1375.2. Segregation, social division of space and restratification in the contemporary city 1395.3. From observations to theories: the multiple factors of segregation 1475.4. Analyzing segregation, scales and temporalities 1545.5. Conclusion 1605.6. Acknowledgments 1615.7. References 161Chapter 6. Migrants In and Between the Cities of the World 173Armelle CHOPLIN, Hasnia-Sonia MISSAOUI and Olivier PLIEZ6.1. Introduction: migration, urbanization and inequalities 1736.2. City networks and migration networks: a coincidence rather than a given 1766.3. Migration flows creating urban systems 1836.4. Conclusion. Migrants and cities: creators and accelerators of inequalities? 1946.5. References 195Chapter 7. Inequalities Between Cities 205Clémentine COTTINEAU7.1. Interweaving of scales and cities 2057.2. Inequalities related to urban functions 2087.3. Inequalities related to urban status and city powers 2137.4. Size inequalities 2177.5. Image inequalities 2217.6. Conclusion 2267.7. References 226Conclusion 233Denise PUMAIN and Clémentine COTTINEAUList of Authors 237Index 239