Bridging Divides – Residential Segregation in Asia and Africa

Inequality is a complex issue encompassing economic, social, spatial, environmental, and political dimensions. These dimensions vary across cultural, socioeconomic, age, gender, religious, and citizenship status. The dimensions of residential and spatial segregation have become increasingly significant, particularly under the widely adopted neo-liberal urban development regime. Residential segregation shapes the horizons of urban lives and impacts housing, mobility, asset values, infrastructure as well as access to health and education. It determines the narratives of city’s “core” and “periphery” and mirrors housing inadequacy. Consequently, it critically affects, and is affected by, urban policies, particularly in metropolitan cities where intra-urban disparities can be of large magnitudes and affect thousands of people.

Residential Segregation and spatial inequalities is an important theme for social science since long time but research tends to focus on income inequalities and analyses are largely carried out at national or city level through the lens of income and neoliberal economic restructuring.

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