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Spatial inequalities and cities: A review

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  • Somwrita Sarkar
  • Clémentine Cottineau-Mugadza
  • Levi J Wolf

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This special issue of Environment and Planning B focuses on Spatial Inequalities and Cities. As the world progresses to almost a fully urban state, locations, networks, and access shape the everyday lives lived in cities, alongside being the movers and shapers of the future of sustainable and equitable urbanization. This special issue brings together a set of peer-reviewerd papers spanning urban science, urban analytics, geographic information / spatial science, network science, and quantitative socio-economic-spatial analysis, to explore and examine how the morphological, structural and spatial form of cities is linked to the production, maintenance and exacerbation of socio-economic inequalities and injustices. The issue also presents a critical angle on data, methods, and their use, and on how novel data and methods can help shed light on new dimensions of spatial inequalities. This editorial presents a brief critical review of the field of urban spatial inequalities and a summary of the special issue.

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  • Somwrita Sarkar & Clémentine Cottineau-Mugadza & Levi J Wolf, 2024. "Spatial inequalities and cities: A review," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 51(7), pages 1391-1407, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirb:v:51:y:2024:i:7:p:1391-1407
    DOI: 10.1177/23998083241263422
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