Vertical Cities

Edited by Thomas Maloutas, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece and Nikos Karadimitriou, Associate Professor, The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK

Contents:

Foreword: the cities in the city xv
Prodromos Tsiavos
Preface xviii
1 Introduction to Vertical Cities: urban micro-segregation,
housing markets and social reproduction 1
Thomas Maloutas and Nikos Karadimitriou

PART I HIERARCHIES IN NEGOTIATED SOCIAL MIX
2 Constantly evoked but under-researched: the conundrum of
vertical stratification in Naples 23
Nick Dines and Cristina Mattiucci
3 Flat by flat: producing micro-scale social differentiation in
an arrival neighbourhood of Marseille 39
Apolline Meyer and Thomas Pfirsch
4 Micro-housing, vertical marginalization and “normalcy”:
negotiating inclusion arrangements in the interstices of
residential apartment buildings in Beirut 57
Jihad Farah and Salah el-dinn Sadeck
5 Micro-segregation and coexistence in Athens: the debate
on segregation and its implications for urban research 73
Ifigeneia Dimitrakou, Dimitris Balampanidis, Nikolina
Myofa, Iris Polyzou, Dimitra Siatitsa, Stavros Spyrellis
and Kostas Vakalopoulos
6 Measuring and mapping vertical segregation in Athens 88
Thomas Maloutas, Stavros Spyrellis and Nikos Karadimitriou

PART II SPATIAL PATTERNS OF ETHNIC PROXIMITY
7 Co-location of different population categories. Micro-level
segregation dynamics: the case of Amsterdam 99
Rinus Deurloo, Sako Musterd, Bart Sleutjes and Jeroen Slot
8 Social mix and vertical segregation in Madrid 116
Jesús Leal and Daniel Sorando
9 Vertical micro-segregation in a middle-sized
Mediterranean city: a case study in Málaga, Spain 129
Juan José Natera-Rivas, Remedios Larrubia-Vargas and
Susana Navarro-Rodríguez

PART III HIERARCHICAL PROXIMITY IN
SEGMENTED HOUSING MARKETS
10 Vertical segregation of rural migrants in urban China:
a case study of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou 139
Sainan Lin and Zhigang Li
11 Micro-segregation in Rio de Janeiro 154
Vinicius M. Netto, Camila Carvalho, Maria Fiszon and Yasmin Couto

PART IV SOCIAL MIX IN RECOMMODIFIED STATE
SOCIALIST CITIES
12 Vertical separation in high-rise apartment buildings:
evidence from Bucharest and Budapest under state socialism 173
Szymon Marcińczak and Daniel Baldwin Hess
13 Vertical micro-segregation in apartment buildings in Budapest 189
Zoltán Kovács, Judit Székely and Balázs Szabó
14 Patterns of small-scale residential segregation in the centre
of Belgrade 204
Ivan Ratkaj, Aljoša Budović and Nikola Jocić
15 Gentrification as a micro-segregation phenomenon: social
and spatial layers of Tallinn inner city 220
Kadri Leetmaa, Elina Maarja Suitso, Kadi Kalm, Ingmar
Pastak and Tiit Tammaru

PART V PROXIMITY IN GENTRIFIED URBAN SPACES
16 Beyond the concept of spatial segregation: analytical
weakness, perverse policies, and evidence from Mexico City 240
Eftychia Bournazou
17 Compulsory social mix, micro-scale segregation and
gentrification: the case of Gan HaHashmal neighbourhood,
Tel Aviv 255
Tal Shamur and Haim Yacobi
18 Planning vertical differentiation? Geodesign workshop in
the case study area of Neve-Sha’anan neighbourhood in Tel Aviv 272
Shlomit Flint Ashery and Rinat Steinlauf Millo

PART VI HIERARCHIES IN HOUSING TOWERS
19 Micro-segregation in Seoul, the capital city of the
“Republic of Apartments” 285
Yu-Min Joo
20 Wealth-based micro-segregation in Hong Kong: social
distance within spatial proximity 300
Hang Kei Ho and Maurice Yip
21 Perceived pull and push forces in high-rise developing
neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile 314
Ernesto López-Morales and Ignacio Arce
22 The commodification of height: vertical price
differentiation in Vienna’s condominium towers 333
Walter Matznetter and Robert Musil

Index