The book Residential Segregation in Comparative Perspective edited by Thomas Maloutas and Kuniko Fujita has been released. The book covers 11 city case studies of residential segregation including Athens, Beijing, Budapest, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Madrid, Paris, Sao Paulo, Taipei and Tokyo.
It includes, among others, one chapter by Eduardo Marques, « Residential segregation and social structure in São Paulo: continuity and change since the 1990s » and one chapter by Edmond Préteceille « Segregation, social mix and public policies in Paris », both of whom are members of Cities Are Back In Town.
More information about this book is available here: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409418733
Contents of the book:
Introduction: residential segregation in context, Thomas Maloutas;
Residential income inequality in Tokyo and why it does not translate into class-based segregation, Kuniko Fujita and Richard Child Hill;
The impact of housing tenure on residential segregation in Beijing, China, John R. Logan and Limei Li;
Residential segregation in an unequal city: why are there no urban ghettos in Hong Kong?, Ngai-ming Yip;
A portrait of residential differentiation in Taipei City (1980-2010), Chia-Huang Wang and Chun-Hao Li;
Residential segregation and social structure in São Paulo: continuity and change since the 1990s, Eduardo Marques, Renata Bichir and Celi Scalon;
Segregation, social mix and public policies in Paris, Edmond Préteceille;
The solidity of urban socio-spatial structures in Copenhagen, Hans Thor Andersen;
Residential segregation in Budapest before and after transition, Zoltán Kovács;
The limits of segregation as an expression of socioeconomic inequality: the Madrid case, Marta Dominguez, Jesus Leal and Elena Martinez Goytre;
Changing dynamics of residential segregation in Istanbul, Tuna Tasan-Kok;
Social polarization and de-segregation in Athens, Thomas Maloutas, Vassilis Arapoglou, George Kandylis and John Sayas;
Conclusion: residential segregation and urban theory, Kuniko Fujita