Publication: Intra-Urban Spatial Inequality : Cities as "Urban Regions"
Date
2009
ISSN
Published
2009
Author(s)
Kilroy, Austin
Abstract
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.
Citation
“Kilroy, Austin. 2009. Intra-Urban Spatial Inequality : Cities as "Urban Regions". © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/79f54b41-3d5f-5cb9-bd33-4802e125587a License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”