Reordering, inequality and Divergent Growth: Processes of Neighbourhood Change in Dutch Cities

Modai-Snir, T.; van Ham, M.

doi:10.1080/00343404.2020.1747607

Reordering, inequality and Divergent Growth

Title

Reordering, inequality and Divergent Growth: Processes of Neighbourhood Change in Dutch Cities

Author

Modai-Snir, T. (TU Delft Urban Studies)
van Ham, M. (TU Delft Urban Studies)

Date

2020

Abstract

Neighbourhood socioeconomic change is often related to structural processes that transform urban income compositions. In the Netherlands, restructuring of the welfare state and the housing market are examples. The paper examines the role of structural processes in neighbourhood income change in four Dutch cities (1999–2014) by decomposing total change into contributions of three factors: reordering of neighbourhood hierarchies; increasing inequality; and income growth. Results show regional variation in change components. Amsterdam and Utrecht stand out in contributions of growth; Amsterdam and the Hague in contributions of inequality. All cities’ core neighbourhoods are upgraded through reordering, a pattern often masked by increasing inequality.

Subject

income inequality
neighbourhood change
socio-spatial structure
socioeconomic change

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2020.1747607

ISSN

0034-3404

Source

Regional Studies, 54 (12), 1668-1679

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