Vertical micro-segregation: is living in disadvantageous lower floors in Athens’ apartment blocks producing negative social effects?

Μαλούτας, Θωμάς; Botton, Hugo

doi:10.1080/02673037.2021.2014414

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“…First, segregation between East Villagepart of the regenerated and gentrified 'New Stratford' -and the spatially proximate but socially distant 'rest of Stratford' aka the working-class and multi-ethnic 'Old Stratford'. Second, 'micro-segregation mechanisms and processes' (Maloutas and Botton, 2021: 2) which occur within East Village in relation to housing tenure in both vertical and horizontal forms. Not only do our findings reinforce widespread academic scepticism regarding the efficacy of mixed-tenure neighbourhoods in general (Tunstall and Lupton, 2010;Levin et al, 2022), they also highlight how the Olympics' 'inclusive' legacy and social mixing goals are far from being realised in practice (see Cohen, 2017;Humphry, 2020;Bernstock, 2020).…”

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“…Among the middle-class interviewees, tenure stigmatisation was prominent among shared owners most of whom explicitly criticised the behaviour of social renters. These two groups of residents were often physically proximate since they lived in the same blocks of flats, albeit on different floors with the social renters typically occupying the lower floors -an example of 'vertical micro-segregation' (Maloutas and Botton, 2021). The shared owners tended to attribute anti-social behaviour -in the form of noise, littering in the communal areas, and drug usage -to the presence of social renters.…”

Section: Tenure Stigmatisation -Social Rentersmentioning

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Social mixing or mixophobia in regenerating East London? ‘Affordable housing’, gentrification, stigmatisation and the post-Olympics East Village

Corcillo¹,

Watt²

2023

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This paper examines socio-spatial inequalities with reference to the post-Olympics East Village -the former Athletes' Village -located in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham. The East Village neighbourhood has been praised within urban policy circles because of its mixed-tenure housing, including a relatively high percentage of 'affordable housing'. It is also claimed to be a space of social mixing, including in relation to the rest of East London. This paper examines these claims with reference to research undertaken at the East Village with residents and officials. Survey data reveals how East Village is a majority white neighbourhood with a large professional-managerial 'salariat', and as such is quite distinct in both class and ethnic terms from the rest of Stratford and Newham. These social differences are reflected in the interview data which examine how 'othering' processes occur on the part of middle-class East Village residents, both externally in relation to the rest of Stratford, but also internally within East Village itself. These residents display a 'mixophobic' (Bauman, 2013) reaction towards Stratford via territorial stigmatisation, and towards East Village social renters via housing tenure stigmatisation. The aims of social mixing and affordable housing are far from being realised within the East Village regeneration scheme.

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Section: Tenure Stigmatisation -Social Rentersmentioning

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Social mixing or mixophobia in regenerating East London? ‘Affordable housing’, gentrification, stigmatisation and the post-Olympics East Village

Corcillo¹,

Watt²

2023

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“…Answering this question is equally difficult as answering the question about the neighbourhood effect, and conclusive evidence is required from different contexts. A first attempt in this direction can be found in Maloutas and Botton (2021b), who explored whether young people living in lower-floor apartments in Athens are significantly more likely to opt out of school irrespective of their social background, ethnic identity, and demographic profile. The conclusion was that living at the bottom of the housing hierarchy at the micro-level was significant but considerably less important than the social and ethnic profile of children’s families.…”

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Vertical segregation in the apartment blocks of Athens and Budapest: A comparative study

Μαλούτας

Spyrellis

Szabó

et al. 2022

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Contemporary urban societies are experiencing growing income inequality and rising socio-spatial differentiation. The implication of space in the reproduction of inequality has been extensively discussed in the literature; however, the social consequences of spatial hierarchies at the microscale are largely neglected. Among these hierarchies, the unequal distribution of socio-economic groups by floors in apartment buildings (i.e. vertical segregation) is probably the major form of micro-segregation. In this study, the patterns of vertical segregation in Athens and Budapest were investigated using microdata from the 2011 Greek and Hungarian censuses. The research findings reveal that the level of vertical segregation varies according to the diversity of quality within segments of the housing stock in both cities, with older buildings being more vertically segregated. Moreover, the study demonstrates that despite differences in the broader socio-economic and political framework and housing systems, the vertical segregation of occupational groups follows similar patterns in both cities, where high-status groups tend to occupy upper levels and lower-class people are more concentrated at lower levels. The findings of this study provide an empirical basis for the analysis of social mix produced in different contextual frameworks of vertical segregation and raise questions about urban policies that can reduce the negative effects of micro-segregation for those who enjoy social mix at the expense of low housing quality in the affordable part of the stock.

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“…6 in this volume). Moreover, recent work hinted at detrimental spatial effects 'over and above' the personal characteristics of residents -like class and gender -for those living in the disadvantaged small apartments on lower floors (Maloutas and Botton, 2021).…”

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Introduction to Vertical Cities: urban micro-segregation, housing markets and social reproduction

2022

Micro-Segregation in Rio De Janeiro

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Vertical micro-segregation: is living in disadvantageous lower floors in Athens’ apartment blocks producing negative social effects?

Cited by 6 publications

References 29 publications

Social mixing or mixophobia in regenerating East London? ‘Affordable housing’, gentrification, stigmatisation and the post-Olympics East Village

Social mixing or mixophobia in regenerating East London? ‘Affordable housing’, gentrification, stigmatisation and the post-Olympics East Village

Vertical segregation in the apartment blocks of Athens and Budapest: A comparative study

Introduction to Vertical Cities: urban micro-segregation, housing markets and social reproduction

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