Divided Cities
Understanding Intra-urban Inequalities
This report provides an assessment of spatial inequalities and segregation in cities and metropolitan areas from multiple perspectives. The chapters in the report focus on a subset of OECD countries and non-member economies, and provide new insights on cross-cutting issues for city neighbourhooods, such as the patterns of segregation across income groups, migrant concentration and diversity across cities of different sizes, the role of public transport accessibility in widening intra-city inequalities, and the expected path dependency on outcomes related to segregation. The report also discusses methodological alternatives for measuring different dimensions of inequality and segregation across cities, and highlights the role of public policies in bridging urban divides and the relevance of the scale of analysis in order to make sound international comparisons.
Foreword
Cities are places of opportunity. In cities people can benefit from work and training opportunities, proximity to other people and physical access to many high-level services that are important for well-being. When cities are well-organised and inclusive, they allow people to access opportunities, regardless of their location within the city.