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COVER -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introducing the book -- Reflecting on the current debate -- The contribution and the limitations of this book -- Outline -- Notes -- References -- 2. Causes of urban-economic inequality and segregation -- Macro processes and inequality -- Technological development -- Globalisation -- Demographic trends -- National institutions -- Inequality between cities -- Economic growth in cities -- Increasing economic importance of cities -- Not all cities benefit -- Growing inequalities in cities -- Trickle-down effects -- Housing market dynamics -- Economic segregation in cities -- Causes of economic segregation -- What causes changes in the level of economic segregation? -- Notes -- References -- 3. Reflecting on the measurement -- How to measure inequality -- The Gini coefficient -- Limits to the scope -- How to measure segregation -- The dissimilarity index -- Sensitivity to measurement choices -- Limits to the scope -- Inequality and segregation of what? -- Wage, income or capital -- Wage or income -- Income or capital -- From gross incomes to standard of living -- Market or disposable incomes -- Individual or household level -- Standard of living = income - daily cost of living -- A dynamic perspective on inequality and segregation -- Appendix -- Measuring inequality and segregation -- Notes -- References -- 4. Reflecting on the (negative) societal impact -- The negative impact of economic inequality -- Effects on economic growth -- Ambiguous causality -- Health and social effects -- Omitted variables and overattribution -- Relative or absolute poverty -- The issue of causality -- The negative impact of economic segregation -- Mechanisms underlying neighbourhood effects -- Social mechanisms