We have already introduced you to the main concepts of the course as well as raised concerns about the growing income inequality and spatial segregation in cities around the world. Now let’s look at global trends.

Watch urban geographer Professor Maarten van Ham focusing on the relationship between income inequality and socio-economic segregation. Maarten shares findings from the new open-access book  Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality: A Global Perspective, which can be downloaded for free. In the next module you can read more about this book.