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Book SynopsisExploring the social implications of dense and compact cities, this enlightening book looks at micro-scale segregation through several lenses. These include the ways that the housing market constantly reconfigures social mix, how the structure of the housing stock shapes it, and the ways that policies are deployed to manage these effects.
Taking a deep dive into micro-segregation in the socially mixed and dense centres of compact cities, the authors investigate the form and content of social and ethno-racial hierarchies at the micro-scale of different cities around the world and the ways these have evolved over time. Vertical Cities considers the ways the materiality of such hierarchies affects the reproduction of social inequalities in today’s large cities.
Academics and researchers of urban sociology, housing, urban regeneration, urban studies and urban geography will find the original approach taken to this under-researched topic to be a vital resource. Practitioners and policy makers will find the innovative use of a common theoretical frame to analyse micro-scale social mix in vertical/compact cities informative when dealing with the management of neighbourhoods in inner cities.
Trade Review‘When most people think about urban segregation they think about different residential areas of cities. But, as the contributors to this wide ranging and comprehensive volume convincingly show, urban social segregation can take many forms, both horizontal and vertical, and involve a wide range of different groups and housing types at a variety of different scales.’ -- Chris Hamnett, Emeritus Professor, King's College, London, UK
‘This book has a highly original focus on micro-segregation, particularly vertical, revealing forms of housing and urban inequalities and hierarchies that are otherwise hidden in socially mixed neighborhoods. Examples from different cities worldwide show how widespread those micro-segregations are, but also how different, in form, in the way they are shaped by historical processes and market dynamics, and in the local social configurations they create.’ -- Edmond Préteceille, Sciences Po CNRS Paris, France
‘Contributors document the many forms of spatial separation that structure residents’ daily lives but that are invisible to the administrative census data that urbanists usually rely on to measure segregation. Studies of cities around the world included here focus especially on differences in class or racial/ethnic composition between lower and upper floors of multistory buildings. They call into question the spatial scale of urban phenomena – neighborhoods, neighboring, and urban inequality – that are too often taken for granted in empirical research.’ -- John R. Logan, Brown University, Rhode Island, US
Table of ContentsContents: Foreword: the cities in the city xv Prodromos Tsiavos Preface xviii 1 Introduction to Vertical Cities: urban micro-segregation, housing markets and social reproduction 1 Thomas Maloutas and Nikos Karadimitriou PART I HIERARCHIES IN NEGOTIATED SOCIAL MIX 2 Constantly evoked but under-researched: the conundrum of vertical stratification in Naples 23 Nick Dines and Cristina Mattiucci 3 Flat by flat: producing micro-scale social differentiation in an arrival neighbourhood of Marseille 39 Apolline Meyer and Thomas Pfirsch 4 Micro-housing, vertical marginalization and “normalcy”: negotiating inclusion arrangements in the interstices of residential apartment buildings in Beirut 57 Jihad Farah and Salah el-dinn Sadeck 5 Micro-segregation and coexistence in Athens: the debate on segregation and its implications for urban research 73 Ifigeneia Dimitrakou, Dimitris Balampanidis, Nikolina Myofa, Iris Polyzou, Dimitra Siatitsa, Stavros Spyrellis and Kostas Vakalopoulos 6 Measuring and mapping vertical segregation in Athens 88 Thomas Maloutas, Stavros Spyrellis and Nikos Karadimitriou PART II SPATIAL PATTERNS OF ETHNIC PROXIMITY 7 Co-location of different population categories. Micro-level segregation dynamics: the case of Amsterdam 99 Rinus Deurloo, Sako Musterd, Bart Sleutjes and Jeroen Slot 8 Social mix and vertical segregation in Madrid 116 Jesús Leal and Daniel Sorando 9 Vertical micro-segregation in a middle-sized Mediterranean city: a case study in Málaga, Spain 129 Juan José Natera-Rivas, Remedios Larrubia-Vargas and Susana Navarro-Rodríguez PART III HIERARCHICAL PROXIMITY IN SEGMENTED HOUSING MARKETS 10 Vertical segregation of rural migrants in urban China: a case study of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou 139 Sainan Lin and Zhigang Li 11 Micro-segregation in Rio de Janeiro 154 Vinicius M. Netto, Camila Carvalho, Maria Fiszon and Yasmin Couto PART IV SOCIAL MIX IN RECOMMODIFIED STATE SOCIALIST CITIES 12 Vertical separation in high-rise apartment buildings: evidence from Bucharest and Budapest under state socialism 173 Szymon Marcińczak and Daniel Baldwin Hess 13 Vertical micro-segregation in apartment buildings in Budapest 189 Zoltán Kovács, Judit Székely and Balázs Szabó 14 Patterns of small-scale residential segregation in the centre of Belgrade 204 Ivan Ratkaj, Aljoša Budović and Nikola Jocić 15 Gentrification as a micro-segregation phenomenon: social and spatial layers of Tallinn inner city 220 Kadri Leetmaa, Elina Maarja Suitso, Kadi Kalm, Ingmar Pastak and Tiit Tammaru PART V PROXIMITY IN GENTRIFIED URBAN SPACES 16 Beyond the concept of spatial segregation: analytical weakness, perverse policies, and evidence from Mexico City 240 Eftychia Bournazou 17 Compulsory social mix, micro-scale segregation and gentrification: the case of Gan HaHashmal neighbourhood, Tel Aviv 255 Tal Shamur and Haim Yacobi 18 Planning vertical differentiation? Geodesign workshop in the case study area of Neve-Sha’anan neighbourhood in Tel Aviv 272 Shlomit Flint Ashery and Rinat Steinlauf Millo PART VI HIERARCHIES IN HOUSING TOWERS 19 Micro-segregation in Seoul, the capital city of the “Republic of Apartments” 285 Yu-Min Joo 20 Wealth-based micro-segregation in Hong Kong: social distance within spatial proximity 300 Hang Kei Ho and Maurice Yip 21 Perceived pull and push forces in high-rise developing neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile 314 Ernesto López-Morales and Ignacio Arce 22 The commodification of height: vertical price differentiation in Vienna’s condominium towers 333 Walter Matznetter and Robert Musil Index
