Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States by Harry W. Richardson

Author:Harry W. Richardson [Richardson, Harry W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Forecasting, Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780754637899
Google: r3BPAAAAMAAJ
Goodreads: 234990
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-05-28T00:00:00+00:00

City centres

Suburbs

Urban fringe

1996 (Francs)

89,000

101,653

98,112

Change 90-96 (%)

5.88

8.11

11.7

Source: DGI (French revenue service) and Choffel (2000).

In Ile-de-France, the spatial segregation of social classes is becoming more pronounced. Higher income groups, and particularly the categories representing decision functions, are more and more concentrated in the west part of Paris and in the nearby west and south-west periphery (IAURIF, 2001). This is largely the result of a cumulative process relating the location of well-off population and high-order activities (see the analysis of employment poles in Ile-de-France below). High-tech industries and high-order services generally prefer to locate near high-skilled populations. In return, the presence of high-skilled jobs influences the residential location of executives, and this reinforces social segregation and place attraction. The lower income households leave the centre for the periphery and concentrate in old-established industrial poles and in peripheral high-density housing estates. According to IAURIF (2001), market mechanisms and the cumulative location process make the reversal of this segregation process increasingly improbable.

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