Social-spatial segregation: concepts, processes and outcomes

10. 'Sleepwalking towards Johannesburg'? Local measures of ethnic segregation between London's secondary schools, 2003-08/09Introduction; Context; Segregation, measurement and the modifiable area unit problem; Geographies of ethnicity for London's secondary schools; Measuring ethnic segregation within the local market for schools; Conclusion; 11. Segregation, choice-based letting and social housing: how housing policy can affect the segregation process; Introduction; Background; An English case study; Discussion and conclusion; 12. Demographic understandings of changes in ethnic residential segregation across the life course.

This edited volume brings together leading researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe to look at the processes leading to segregation and its implications. With a methodological focus, the book explores new methods and data sources that can offer fresh perspectives on segregation in different contexts. It considers how the spatial patterning of segregation might be best understood and measured, outlines some of the mechanisms that drive it, and discusses its possible social outcomes. Ultimately, it demonstrates that measurements and concepts of segregation must keep pace with a changing world. This volume will be essential reading for academics and practitioners in human geography, sociology, planning and public policy