Reordering, inequality and divergent growth: processes of neighbourhood change in Dutch cities. Issue 12 (1st December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Modai-Snir, Tal; van Ham, Maarten
• Is Part Of: Regional studies. Volume 54:Issue 12(2020)
• Page Start: 1668
• Page End: 1679
• Publication Date: 2020-12-01
• Subjects: neighbourhood change -- socioeconomic change -- income inequality -- socio-spatial structure; R23; Regional planning -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 307.14
• DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2020.1747607
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0034-3404

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Neighbourhood socioeconomic change is often related to structural processes that transform urban income compositions. In the Netherlands, restructuring of the welfare state and the housing market are examples. The paper examines the role of structural processes in neighbourhood income change in four Dutch cities (1999–2014) by decomposing total change into contributions of three factors: reordering of neighbourhood hierarchies; increasing inequality; and income growth. Results show regional variation in change components. Amsterdam and Utrecht stand out in contributions of growth; Amsterdam and the Hague in contributions of inequality. All cities' core neighbourhoods are upgraded through reordering, a pattern often masked by increasing inequality.