Local urban attributes defining ethnically segregated areas across English cities: A multilevel approach

Patias, Nikos; Rowe, Francisco; Arribas‐Bel, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2022.103967

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“…Neighborhood segregation is connected to the location of cultural buildings in the city. The so-called vulnerable areas in the Stockholm suburbs concentrate households with lower incomes, higher unemployment, a higher number of inhabitants of non-European origin (Andersson and Br am a, 2018) and lower education levels (Granvik Saminathen et al, 2019), with little chances of finding a job (Patias et al, 2023) in Sweden's post-industrial economy, which requires highly skilled and educated workers (Hedin et al, 2012).…”

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Economic powers encompass the largest cultural buildings: market, culture and equality in Stockholm, Sweden (1918–2023)

Campo-Ruiz

2024

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PurposeThe aim of this research is to understand the relationship between cultural buildings, economic powers and social justice and equality in architecture and how this relationship has evolved over the last hundred years. This research seeks to identify architectural and urban elements that enhance social justice and equality to inform architectural and urban designs and public policies.Design/methodology/approachThe author explores the relationship between case studies of museums, cultural centers and libraries, and economic powers between 1920 and 2020 in Stockholm, Sweden. The author conducts a historical analysis and combines it with statistical and geographically referenced information in a Geographic Information System, archival data and in situ observations of selected buildings in the city. The author leverages the median income of household data from Statistics Sweden, with the geographical location of main public buildings and the headquarters of main companies operating in Sweden.FindingsThis analysis presents a gradual commercialization of cultural buildings in terms of location, inner layout and management, and the parallel filtering and transforming of the role of users. The author assesses how these cultural buildings gradually conformed to a system in the city and engaged with the market from a more local and national level to global networks. Findings show a cluster of large public buildings in the center of Stockholm, the largest global companies' headquarters and high-income median households. Results show that large shares of the low-income population now live far away from these buildings and the increasing commercialization of cultural space and inequalities.Originality/valueThis research provides a novel image of urban inequalities in Stockholm focusing on cultural buildings and their relationship with economic powers over the last hundred years. Cultural buildings could be a tool to support equality and stronger democracy beyond their primary use. Public cultural buildings offer a compromise between generating revenue for the private sector while catering to the needs and interests of large numbers of people. Therefore, policymakers should consider emphasizing the construction of more engaging public cultural buildings in more distributed locations.

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