urban poverty

Inequalities and the City. Gender, Ethnicity, and Class

The question of urban inequalities relates to two interconnected processes of change.
These involve: (i) the increase and transformation of inequalities on global and local
scales and (ii) the urbanisation at a time when the majority of the world’s population
lives in cities and the growth of gigantic conurbations in both the Global North and
South. Today, the traditional historical divide between urban and rural contexts is
not so significant – also the case in the lesser developed countries and regions – with

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