neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low …, and the spatial organisation of urban housing markets. Poverty, and living in poverty concentration neighbourhoods is … in deprived neighbourhoods and replacing them with housing for the middle classes. Such policies will not solve the …

The neighbourhoods in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility … between neighbourhoods gives insight in the openness of spatial class structures of societies and in the ability of people to … leave disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We study the extent to which people move between different types of neighbourhoods by …

using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much … larger in 2002 than in 1990, but also that most poor children in the three regions live outside poor neighbourhoods. A … disproportionally large fraction of children with backgrounds from low- and middle-income countries live in poor neighbourhoods …