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Urban Inequality and Polarization

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The nature and extent of urban social divisions and inequalities is of major importance for social scientists, politicians and policy makers, not least because they have a bearing on social and economic conditions in cities where the majority of the world’s population now live. How the social structure of cities is changing and whether cities are becoming more or less unequal, and in what respects has considerable implications for urban policy.

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Fulong Wu Chris Webster

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Hamnett, C. (2010). Urban Inequality and Polarization. In: Wu, F., Webster, C. (eds) Marginalization in Urban China. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299122_2

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