The Urban Dimensions of Inequality and Equality
The spatialisation of inequalities through processes of urbanisation have become increasingly significant over the last fifty years as disparities have both widened and concentrated in and between urban and territorial areas in most parts of the world. As local and national governments, development agencies, and scholars increasingly converge on the need to address the impacts of inequality and inequity, a common concern is how to make cities and their territories fairer and more equal places. This demands recognition at three levels: (i) of the everyday hardships caused by inequalities; (ii) that inequalities exist in and as a result of urban, territorial, national and global processes, including through policy and planning at these different scales; and (iii) that there is a necessity for effective and inclusive action towards “levelling the playing field politically, socially and economically in local and global arenas
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