Urban Residential Differentiation: An Overview of Patterns, Trends, and Problems*

In: Sociological inquiry: the quarterly journal of the International Sociology Honor Society, Band 43, Heft 3-4, S. 35-56

Abstract

The main causes, conditions, and social consequences of residential differentiation in urbanized communities are reviewed. A comparison is made among the forms of residential differentiation in preindustrial, industrial, and postindustrial cities and in planned and unplanned industrial cites. Major emphasis is given to the social problems and issues connected with postindustrial residential differentiation.