ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of the book. This book reflects on the claim that 'urban-economic inequality and segregation are increasing, that this is a bad thing, and that money and people need to be redistributed in response'. It demonstrates that research choices with regard to the different measures and different elements of the economic or spatial distribution can influence the conclusions about (changes in) economic inequality and segregation in cities to a large extent. In the case of economic inequality, for instance, it is important to keep in mind that the available measures differ in their sensitivity to different parts of the economic distribution. The book deals with the claim that economic inequality and segregation may be immoral in and of themselves. To those who claim this, economic equality and desegregation are 'just' and moral ideals worth aspiring to.
