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• Title:
  Urban shrinkage and socio-economic segregation in medium-sized cities: The case of Schwerin (Germany)
• Creator:
  Huntington, David
• Description:
  Although past studies have found that processes of urban shrinkage may act as a catalyst for socio-economic segregation, these relationships remain underexplored outside the context of large cities and capitals. Moreover, cities at lower-tiers of the urban hierarchy in post-socialist Europe have been doubly excluded from the critical discourse on the socio-spatial effects of shrinkage. Hence, this article examines how shrinkage affects socio-economic segregation in the medium-sized post-socialist city of Schwerin, employing segregation indices to assess levels of spatial unevenness and location quotients to map intra-urban patterns of vulnerable population groups over time. Results indicate processes of shrinkage may exacerbate socio-economic segregation in medium-sized cities and that the spatial heterogeneity of shrinkage intersects with uneven distributions of affluence and poverty. However, suggesting that legacies of state socialism shape contemporary socio-spatial change, segregation in Schwerin is strongly conditioned by its socialist-era housing estates, which are generally characterised by the highest rates of population decline, vacancy, and vulnerable groups.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 David Huntington
• Date:
  2021.12.30
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Recenzowany artykuł
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Quaestiones Geographicae; Vol. 40 No. 4 (2021); 29-46;
  Quaestiones Geographicae; Tom 40 Nr 4 (2021); 29-46;
  2081-6383;
  0137-477X
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/qg/article/view/31380/27652
• Subject:
  urban shrinkage;
  socio-economic segregation;
  medium-sized cities;
  post-socialist cities;
  socio-spatial inequality
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/qg/article/view/31380
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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