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New peripheries in the making? Analysing German cities from the lens of a suburbanisation of poverty
In this paper we discuss evidence on new socio-spatial patterns in the relation between urban and suburban areas due to the involuntary outward...
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Urban exodus or suburbanisation? Medium-term COVID-19 pandemic impacts on internal migration in Japan
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected internal migration patterns worldwide. Most previous studies have reported on pandemic-induced changes...
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Suburbanisation and Migrant Entrepreneurship in the United States
It is well documented that US metropolitan areas have experienced significant spatial, economic, and demographic changes, with increasing minority...
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Suburban Migration: Interrogating the Intersections of Global Migration and Suburban Transformation
Suburbanisation as a global phenomenon has presented multifaceted patterns of evolution and transformation in various contexts. Migrant settlements...
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Suburbanisation of Poverty in Shanghai and Declining Ridership of Rail Services
Shanghai is the largest city in China in terms of population and is an important economic, financial, trade and shipping centre in China. In 2016,...
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Urban Flight or Stagnation? Patterns of Residential Migration in Post-COVID Spain
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the media in different countries reported a mass flight from cities, due to a combination of pandemic fears, the search...
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Geographical structure of the local segregation of migrants in (sub)urban China
Unprecedented urbanisation in China has profoundly reshaped the country’s social-spatial structure. Owing to economic suburbanisation and urban...
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Determinants of urban sprawl in Latin America: evidence from Santiago de Chile
Urban sprawl has been widely discussed in regard of its economic, political, social and environmental impacts. Consequently, several planning...
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The Spatial Dynamics of Homelessness in Australia: Urbanisation, Intra-City Dynamics and Affordable Housing
While homelessness in Australia has remained relatively stable at the national level, its spatial distribution is becoming more nuanced. This paper...
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Understanding the Current Geographic Disposition of the Jewish Population of England and Wales: Growth and Contraction
The release in March/April 2023 of England and Wales 2021 Census complete data on “usual residents” by the Office for National Statistics provides an...
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Stuck in the Suburbs? Socio-spatial Exclusion of Migrants in Shanghai
Migrants’ residential location plays a critical role in their social integration process. In China, large numbers of rural-to-urban migrants are...
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Social and Spatial Transformations
This chapter discusses the social and spatial changes in the city of Amsterdam from the early 1980s until 2015. It does so along three dimensions:...
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Transition or Consolidation? The Role of Inner-City Neighbourhoods in the Integration of Immigrants in Brussels, Belgium
Ernest Burgess’ transition zone has become a classical concept in urban sociology and geography. Because of the development of inner-city...
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The Pauperisation and Suburbanisation of the Countryside: Two Aspects of Spatially Differentiated Post-communist Development in Slovakia
The “Velvet Revolution” of 1989, the symbol of the collapse of socialism in former Czechoslovakia, evoked gigantic, unexpected and ambiguously...
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Migration and Cities: An Introduction
This chapter introduces the empirical context and analytical framework within which the volume is inscribed. We discuss how urbanisation processes...
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Migrant Populations and Residential Segregation in Southern Europe: An Overview
The aim of this contribution is to analyse the peculiarity of the Southern European context in the European migration system. In particular, the...
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Trapped in Place? Ethnic and Educational Heterogeneity in Residential Mobility and Integration of Young Adults in Brussels
Spatial assimilation theory asserts that immigrants’ socioeconomic progress leads to residential adaptation and integration. This association has...
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Homeownership-based segregation and urban amenity differentiation in Shanghai
Chinese cities have attracted increasing scholarly attention to research the emerging patterns and mechanisms of residential segregation. The extant...
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Deagrarisation as a Determinant of Living Standards in Rural Areas of European Union Countries
The paper deals with the issue of living standards being compared in spatial layouts across the EU countries in 2010–2019. The situation in rural...
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Micro-segregation and residential mobility: case study of two athenian apartment blocks
This article considers changes regarding the social physiognomy of apartment blocks in urban housing in the densely built neighbourhoods of Athens...
