Latest Urban Studies news 26/09/22

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The dynamics of socio-economic segregation: What role do private schools play? by Stefanie Jähnen and Marcel Helbig

Results from Stefanie Jähnen and Marcel Helbig's paper suggest that school choice availability may promote residential integration and at the same time reinforce school segregation.

Transnational migrants and the socio-spatial superdiversification of the global city Tokyo by Sakura Yamamura

This article is part of the forthcoming special issue: Migrant-led Diversification and Differential Inclusion in Arrival Cities across Asia-Pacific.

Sakura Yamamura's latest special issue article illustrates the dynamics of differential inclusions resulting from the superdiversification of urban societies, using Tokyo as a case study.

Social mix and the city: Council housing and neighbourhood income inequality in Vienna by Tamara Premrov and Matthias Schnetzer

Does the provision of council housing foster the social mix? Premrov and Schnetzer show for the Austrian capital Vienna that extensive and well-distributed public housing policies can increase income diversity in neighbourhoods.

Read the accompanying blog post here.

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