Cities, Economic Inequality and Justice

Edwin Buitelaar, PhD, is a professor of land and real estate development at Utrecht University and a senior researcher of urban development at the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. Anet Weterings, PhD, is a senior researcher of regional economic development at the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.Roderik Ponds, PhD, is a senior researcher at Atlas voor Gemeenten, and a lecturer on Urban Economics at TIAS Business School.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsChapter 1: Introducing the book1.1 Reflecting on the current debate1.2 The contribution and the limitations of this book1.3 OutlineChapter 2: Causes of urban-economic inequality and segregation2.1 Macro processes and inequality2.2 Inequality between cities 2.3 Growing inequalities in cities2.4 Economic segregation in citiesChapter 3: Reflecting on the measurement3.1 How to measure inequality?3.1.1 The Gini coefficient3.1.2 Limits to the scope3.2 How to measure segregation?3.2.1 The dissimilarity index3.2.2 Sensitivity to measurement choices3.2.3 Limits to the scope3.3 Inequality and segregation of what?3.3.1 Wage, income or capital3.3.2 From gross incomes to standard of living3.4 A dynamic perspective on inequality and segregationChapter 4: Reflecting on the (negative) societal impact 4.1 The negative impact of economic inequality4.1.1 Effects on economic growth4.1.2 Health and social effects4.2 The negative impact of economic segregation4.2.1 Mechanisms underlying neighbourhood effects4.2.2 Identification of neighbourhood effects4.2.3 From individual effects to city level effectsChapter 5: Reflecting on the moral implications5.1 Equality and distributional justice5.2 The pie metaphor5.3 Good and bad economic inequality5.4 The impracticability of aiming for economic equality 5.5 The same or enough? About the moral relevance of economic inequality 5.6 The moral relevance of (economic) segregation5.7 Reflecting on the material dimension of economic inequality and segregationChapter 6: Reflecting on urban policy6.1 Summary of the book6.2 Redistribution of money6.3 Redistribution of peopleGlossaryIndex

'I love the scope and ambition of this brave, well written and thoughtful book... Truly useful scholarship on the subject will find rich supporting ideas in this book, which offer intellectual scaffolding to help design specific institutions. The book gives direction for addressing those spatial inequalities that, for evidence-based reasons, need to be addressed, while leaving others to take their natural course. It is essential reading for policy-makers and urban professionals and for students studying cities from disciplinary perspectives of geography, economics, sociology, political science, planning and architecture and other fields.' — Professor Chris Webster, The University of Hong Kong. ‘This book by three experts gives a much-needed boost to the research on the increasing inequality and segregation in cities. A topic that is not only of great academic relevance but also crucial for the future of cities. Highly recommended reading for researchers and policymakers alike.’ — Harry Garretsen, Professor of International Economics & Business, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.