ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. This book is about economic inequality and segregation in cities. Cites and city regions are the geographical entities that we choose to look at (i.e. urban-economic inequality), because there the differences between the rich and the poor seem most profound and to increase most substantially. The book focuses on urban-economic inequality and segregation as the object of the study, not other forms, such as inequality and segregation according to age, gender, race and so on. It focuses on the empirical-methodological and normative soundness of the claim that urban-economic inequality and the spatial sorting thereof (i.e. segregation) are increasing, that this is a bad thing and that money and people (in the case of segregation) need to be redistributed in response.
