Perspectives on Urban Segregation

As cities and societies have become more ethnically diverse, urban segregation has increasingly become a focus of att ention for the general public, the media, policy-makers and academics across the world. However, there has been litt le research which takes account of the built environment as a contributory factor in the process of migration and socio-economic stratification, in the formation of ethnic minority settlement patterns, and in fostering social integration.

 

This issue of Built Environment aims to fill that gap, bringing together a range of empirically founded perspectives from a multitude of disciplines on how residential segregation patterns are realized in space and how, in turn, the spatial environment influences these patterns.

 

• Beyond the ‘Ghetto’
  Laura Vaughan, Sonia Arbaci and Pablo Mateos
• The Challenges of Understanding Urban Segregation
  Laura Vaughan and Sonia Arbaci
• ‘Foreign’ Signs and Multicultural Belongings on a Diverse Shopping Street
  Amanda Wise
• Does the Urban Structure of Swedish Cities Inhibit the Sharing of Public Space?
  Ann Legeby and Lars Marcus
• Overcoming Division in Nicosia’s Public Space
  Nadia Charalambous and Christos Hadjichristos
• Original and New Inhabitants in Three Traditional Neighbourhoods: A Case of Urban Renewal in Santiago de Chile
  Margarita Greene, Rodrigo Mora and Emilio Berrios
• Spatial Configuration of Land-Uses and Arab-Jewish Residential Segregation in Jaffa
  Itzhak Omer
• Ethno-Religious Segregation in Post-Conflict Belfast
  Brendan Murtagh
• Uncertain Segregation: The Challenge of Defining and Measuring Ethnicity in Segregation Studies
  Pablo Mateos
• Publication Reviews