Social segregation, housing tenure and social change in Dutch cities in the late 1980s

Contemporary debates about social polarisation and divided cities emphasise common influences on social and economic change in cities, The development of a global economy and of global influences on both market systems and on public policy regimes encourages an expectation that there is a convergence in processes and policies affecting cities and a convergence in outcomes-in terms of increasingly similar patterns of polarisation and division, This paper considers data from Britain and the Netherlands relating to changes in the housing sector and to social segregation and indicates that emergin... Mehr ...