Abstract

This 3 hour lecture will cover the following topics:

- Inequality and geography: an overview

- The multidimensional Issue: quality of life comparisons

- Recent advances and potential developments.

- Spatial inequality: a pipe dream?

- A new methodology

- The two facets of inequality within US cities

- Neighborhood inequality

Main References:  

- Andreoli, F. Peluso, E. (2017). "So close yet so unequal: Spatial inequality in American cities", LISER Working Paper Series 2017-11, LISER.

- Blomquist, G. C. (2006) Measuring quality of life, in: R. J. Arnott and D. P. McMillen (Eds) A Companion to Urban Economics, pp. 479– 482. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

- M.G. Brambilla, A. Michelangeli and E. Peluso (2013). "Equity in the City: On Measuring Urban (Ine)quality of Life". Urban Studies, vol. 50(16), 3205-3224.

- M.G. Brambilla and A. Michelangeli, E. Peluso (2015). Cities, equity and quality of life. In: (a cura di): A. Michelangeli, Quality of Life in Cities. Equity, Sustainable Development and Happiness from a Policy Perspective. p. 140-165, Routledge, ISBN: 9781138790414.

- Shorrocks, A. and Wan, G. (2005). Spatial decomposition of inequality, Journal of Economic Geography 5(1): 59–81.