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The Segregated Residence Under the Market Economy

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This chapter shows that Beijing’s housing has been characterized since the mid 1990s by a new phenomenon: residential segregation. It begins with an overview of the housing development that has taken place in Beijing after China transferred to a market economy, and then shows the impacts of gentrification within the traditional neighbourhoods of the old city proper on their original residents, and finally, assesses the main factor causing the residential segregation. It is argued that household income has become the main cause of residential segregation in today’s Beijing.

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    Gini coefficient: invented by the Italian statistician Corado Gini, is often used to measure income inequality. Here, 0 corresponds to perfect income equality (i.e. everyone has the same income) and 1 corresponds to perfect income inequality (i.e. one person has all the income, while everyone else has zero income).

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Wang, Y. (2016). The Segregated Residence Under the Market Economy. In: A Century of Change. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39633-0_7

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