Urban Segregation and

Spatial Segregation and Urban Structure

In this paper, we study social interactions between two populations of individuals living in a city. Agents consume land and benefit from intraand inter-group social interactions. We show that in equilibrium segregation arises: populations get separated in distinct spatial neighborhoods. Twoand three-district urban structures are characterized. For high population ratios or strong intergroup in...

Segregation Research on Urban China

URBAN SEGREGATION: A Theoretical Approach

Social-spatial segregation has been one of the most studied issues within the area of urban studies for nearly one century. The word segregation itself has to do with the idea of the separation of certain social groups within the space of societies. It can be considered as a consequence or manifestation of social relations that are established and based on social structure, stratification, rule...

designing holistic framework in studying urban segregation

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The Spatial Syntax of Urban Segregation

Space syntax is a set of theories and techniques about buildings and cities and how they function, rooted in a theory of society and space that originated at the UCL Bartlett School of Graduate Studies in the 1970s. The ability of space syntax methods to objectively measure the physical and spatial attributes of cities in relation to patterns of human activity has led to hundreds of projects, c...