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Urban sores:On the interaction between segregation, urban decay and deprived neighbourhoods
Most European countries have experienced special problems that have emerged in certain more or less well-defined parts of cities called de-prived or depressed urban neighbourhoods. These problems were initially found in the oldest urban areas with the lowest quality housing. Since the beginning of the 1980s, however, in Europe they have also emerged in newer social housing estates outside city centres. These neighbourhoods display visible physical and social problems that can disfigure the perhaps otherwise attractive urban landscape. They could in severe cases even be termed sores on the face of the city. They are often perceived by the public as places that are not inhabited or frequented by decent people – they are seen as ‘places of exclusion’. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a deeper understanding of why such neighbourhoods come to exist and the impacts they have on cities. Urban decay is a result of the interaction between social, economic and physical changes in cities, but one of my main views is that deprived neighbourhoods also constitute a very important element of and contribution to this interaction. These areas are not just a simple result of social inequality and segregational forces, as they also create new segregation and inequality. In these neighbourhoods, strong self-perpetuating processes have been started involving complicated mechanisms that draw the areas into a downward spiral from which they rarely recover unaided. Such forces also impact the rest of the city. The deprived areas act as magnetic poles that attract poverty and social problems, and repel people and economic resources in a way that influences other parts of the city. They are the visible signs that cities are subject to special socio-spatial forces that create social and physical inequality, unstable conditions and sometimes destruction – most clearly observed in slums in large American cities. For this study, I have drawn on research from three main but different fields: 1. Research on segregation and its ...
Urban sores:On the interaction between segregation, urban decay and deprived neighbourhoods
Most European countries have experienced special problems that have emerged in certain more or less well-defined parts of cities called de-prived or depressed urban neighbourhoods. These problems were initially found in the oldest urban areas with the lowest quality housing. Since the beginning of the 1980s, however, in Europe they have also emerged in newer social housing estates outside city centres. These neighbourhoods display visible physical and social problems that can disfigure the perhaps otherwise attractive urban landscape. They could in severe cases even be termed sores on the face of the city. They are often perceived by the public as places that are not inhabited or frequented by decent people – they are seen as ‘places of exclusion’. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a deeper understanding of why such neighbourhoods come to exist and the impacts they have on cities. Urban decay is a result of the interaction between social, economic and physical changes in cities, but one of my main views is that deprived neighbourhoods also constitute a very important element of and contribution to this interaction. These areas are not just a simple result of social inequality and segregational forces, as they also create new segregation and inequality. In these neighbourhoods, strong self-perpetuating processes have been started involving complicated mechanisms that draw the areas into a downward spiral from which they rarely recover unaided. Such forces also impact the rest of the city. The deprived areas act as magnetic poles that attract poverty and social problems, and repel people and economic resources in a way that influences other parts of the city. They are the visible signs that cities are subject to special socio-spatial forces that create social and physical inequality, unstable conditions and sometimes destruction – most clearly observed in slums in large American cities. For this study, I have drawn on research from three main but different fields: 1. Research on segregation and its ...
Urban sores:On the interaction between segregation, urban decay and deprived neighbourhoods
Andersen, Hans Skifter (author)
2003-01-01
Andersen , H S 2003 , Urban sores : On the interaction between segregation, urban decay and deprived neighbourhoods . Ashgate , Aldershot . https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315191980
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