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A Tale of Hidden Cities

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Title A Tale of Hidden Cities
 
Creator Panori, Anastasia
 
Description Hidden cities within a city? During the last decade there is a large trending literature concerning urban and suburban poverty concentration patterns. However, few are the cases where adequate data exist at a low spatial level, in order for scientists to explore that kind of socio-spatial phenomena. This paper tries to investigate the evolution of poverty within urban and suburban space, under a multidimensional framework, during a period of severe economic crisis and austerity measures. The metropolitan area of Athens is used as our case study, for which available data at a municipal level enable the calculation of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for the years 2006 and 2011. Using cluster analysis based on the MPI values, three groups of municipalities are derived within Athens. For each one of them, a mean MPI index is calculated and then decomposed. The results indicate that there is a clear spatial concentration of poverty in the west suburban areas of Athens. The urban core of the city is characterised by middle-income municipalities, whilst the north-east and the south-east suburban areas experience low-poverty indicators. Finally, the results suggest that during the economic crisis period poor areas were affected the most.
 
Publisher ERSA
 
Date 2017-08-02
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Exploratory Data Analysis; Case study
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://openjournals.wu.ac.at/ojs/index.php/region/article/view/189
10.18335/region.v4i3.189
 
Source REGION; Vol 4 No 3 (2017); 19-38
2409-5370
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://openjournals.wu.ac.at/ojs/index.php/region/article/view/189/177
http://openjournals.wu.ac.at/ojs/index.php/region/article/view/189/179
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2017 Anastasia Panori
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