Seit den 1930er Jahren wird der von Ernst Bloch geprägte Begriff der Ungleichzeitigkeit für die widersprüchlichen Wirklichkeiten in kapitalistischen Gesellschaften verwendet - gerade auch was deren räumliche Ausprägungen betrifft. Die Innerstädtische Raumbeobachtung des BBR mit ihren...

This study focuses on the city of São Paulo, Brazil and examines the ways in which irregular and illegal growth have influenced the collective action of social movements of the urban poor. The study describes how São Paulo grew as a socially segregated city during the twentieth century due to...

The most popular general univariate polarization indices for discrete (Esteban and Ray 1994), and continuous (Duclos, Esteban and Ray 2004) variables are combined and extended to describe the extent of polarization between agents in a distribution defined over a collection of many discrete and...

The most popular general univariate polarization indexes for discrete and continuous variables are extended and combined to describe the extent of polarization between agents in a distribution defined over a collection of many discrete and continuous agent characteristics. A formula for the...

The most popular general univariate polarization indices for discrete (Esteban and Ray 1994), and continuous (Duclos, Esteban and Ray 2004) variables are combined and extended to describe the extent of polarization between agents in a distribution defined over a collection of many discrete and...

The most popular general univariate polarization indexes for discrete and continuous variables are extended and combined to describe the extent of polarization between agents in a distribution defined over a collection of many discrete and continuous agent characteristics. A formula for the...

This paper demonstrates that urban social exclusion in China does not only include restricted participation by the iquest;underclassiquest; in urban life, but also the deprivation of certain political, social and economic rights. In addition, the paper describes how the character of urban social...