Is Poverty Decentralizing? Quantifying Uncertainty in the Decentralization of Urban Poverty

Kavanagh, Leo; Lee, Duncan; Pryce, Gwilym

doi:10.1080/24694452.2016.1213156

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“…As urban housing has become less affordable and accessible in increasingly prosperous inner city neighbourhoods, the share of low‐income households has gradually diminished, leading to the decentralisation (or ‘suburbanisation’) of poverty, with poor newcomers in particular more likely to move to the suburbs (Hulchanski ; Kavanagh et al ; Hochstenbach & Musterd ), with potentially deleterious effects on access to employment and amenities for low‐income households. Meanwhile, low‐income households remaining in the city may become more isolated in pockets of older social housing (Musterd & van Gent ) and more concentrated in ‘extreme‐poverty’ neighbourhoods in both inner cities and suburbs (Kneebone & Nadeau ).…”

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Segregation in the Twenty First Century: Processes, Complexities and Future Directions

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2019

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Economic inequality, international migration and urban transformation have generated fresh interest in segregation and given new social significance to questions of socio‐spatial separation and interaction. At the same time, advances in data, methods and theory are opening up new avenues of inquiry that push the focus beyond simple measures of unevenness of residential patterns towards more nuanced analysis of spatial asymmetry, structure and scale. There is also a drive towards considering spaces and activities outside the neighbourhood, bringing new richness to our understanding of how various social groups interact in the various aspects of their lives. These processes and complexities form the backdrop for our special issue and we reflect on the implications for future priorities in research on segregation in the twenty first century.

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Segregation in the Twenty First Century: Processes, Complexities and Future Directions

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“…It foregrounds to a greater extent concerns about loss of access to the centre and the opportunities which that might offer, most notably for employment. Identification of the central location from which to measure distance remains a minor issue although empirical testing in relation to measures of decentralisation suggests it has minimal impact (Kavanagh, Lee, & Pryce, 2016). In the traditional monocentric city, there is a strong relationship between centrality and density, so the choice between deconcentration and decentralisation measures may be relatively unimportant but the growing polycentricity of many urban areas means that movement away from the main centre does not always represent movement to more suburban settings.…”

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“…The central point from which centrality was calculated was the geographic centroid of this central LSOA/DZ. Earlier analyses have shown that using different plausible definitions of the central areal unit and point, or using alternative cut-offs for city limits had no substantive influence on measures of relative centralisation (Kavanagh et al, 2016). The code and data used to produce all analyses are publically available (see endnote 2) and so readers are free to explore the effect of using different choices of centre.…”

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The suburbanisation of poverty in British cities, 2004-16: extent, processes and nature

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2017

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This paper tracks changes in relative centralisation and relative concentration of poverty for the 25 largest British cities, analysing change for poor and non-poor groups separately, and examining parallel changes in spatial segregation. The paper confirms that poverty is suburbanising, at least in the larger cities, although poverty remains over-represented in inner locations. Suburbanisation is occurring through both the reduction in low income populations in inner locations and the growth non-poor groups in these places, consistent with a process of displacement. Relative centralisation of poverty has fallen more stronglythan relative concentration of poverty, as the outward shift of poorer groups leaves them still living in denser neighbourhoods on average. The paper also shows that spatial segregation (unevenness) declined at the same time although it remains to be seen whether this indicates a long-term shift to less segregated urban forms or a transitional outcome before new forms of segregation emerge around suburban poverty concentrations. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Overall, major postindustrial cities have become not only more middle class-"professionalized" (Butler, Hamnett, & Ramsden, 2008;Hamnett, 1994)-but also more divided along socioeconomic and class lines ("polarized"), as is reflected, for example, in rising levels of socioeconomic segregation in many European capital cities (Tammaru, Marcinczak, Van Ham, & Musterd, 2016). As cities' class maps are redrawn, urban poverty also shifts; it may, for example, move away from the inner city milieu and "suburbanize" or "decentralize" (Cooke & Denton, 2015;Hedin, Clark, Lundholm, & Malmberg, 2012;Hulchanski, 2010;Kavanagh, Lee, & Pryce, 2016;Randolph & Tice, 2014). Although these changing divisions are the product of various drivers, welfare state retrenchment and accompanying economic liberalization play an important role.…”

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Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty: changing urban geographies through boom and bust periods

2017

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Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty: changing urban geographies through boom and bust periods Hochstenbach, C.; Musterd, S. General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. Many postindustrial cities across Europe and other contexts are marked by growing social-spatial inequalities, housing liberalization, and gentrification, which limit the housing options of lowincome households. We investigated changes in the residential moves of different low-income households (working poor, lowto-middle income, and unemployed) in the Amsterdam and Rotterdam urban regions for the time period 2004-2013. We found an overarching trend for the suburbanization of poverty toward the urban peripheries and surrounding regions. While this trend appears to be relatively crisis resistant in the tight Amsterdam housing context, it is more cyclical in Rotterdam and has slowed following the global financial crisis. Low-to-middle income and unemployed households are increasingly moving to the urban regions surrounding cities, particularly to higher density satellite towns. Nevertheless, a growing number of working poor households remain highly urbanized, employing various coping strategies to acquire housing. This paper reveals how the suburbanization of poverty is both a direct process of poor households moving from city to suburb, and a broader indirect process caused by exclusionary mechanisms such as the decreasing accessibility and affordability of inner-urban neighborhoods, which reflect broader changes in the geography and socioeconomic patterning of urban regions. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Is Poverty Decentralizing? Quantifying Uncertainty in the Decentralization of Urban Poverty

Cited by 38 publications

References 26 publications

Segregation in the Twenty First Century: Processes, Complexities and Future Directions

Segregation in the Twenty First Century: Processes, Complexities and Future Directions

The suburbanisation of poverty in British cities, 2004-16: extent, processes and nature

Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty: changing urban geographies through boom and bust periods

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