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作者

来源

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES,Vol.27,Issue1,P.201-217

语言

英文

关键字

Property prices; inequality; cities; Prague; Czech Republic; SUBURBANIZATION; INEQUALITY; RISE

作者单位

[Lukavec, Martin; Kolarik, Petr] Univ Econ, Dept Reg Studies, Prague, Czech Republic. Lukavec, M (reprint author), Univ Econ, Dept Reg Studies, Prague, Czech Republic. E-Mail: xlukm902@vse.cz

摘要

City districts are often classified as rich' or poor,' a phenomenon that occurs within cities all over the world. While income inequality, wealth inequality, and other kinds of social inequality are frequently tracked, there is a surprising lack of research concentrating on how social inequality manifests as differences between parts of cities, especially outside of the U.S. That is mostly due to insufficient available data. In this paper, we propose a methodology for measuring the relative inequality between city districts by using the average prices of residential properties in various parts of the city, and assessing their relative difference. This approach has several advantages, as property listings are often readily available even in cities where income data is not. This methodology has potential for measuring developments in inequality in a much wider range of cities. As a proof of concept, we apply this methodology to property prices in Prague during the period 2003-2012 to identify a trend of either growing or decreasing inequality among individual parts of the city. We have found that during this period the disparity has grown only 5.97%, which means the overall growth of disparity between the city districts was negligible.