America’s superstar cities have high levels of inequality, but their neighborhoods are often mixed in terms of income, education and occupation.
“In the contemporary US, overall measures of inequality are steadily rising, and political polarization seems to be the rule rather than the exception. My research looks at how much – if any – of this can be traced to the way that we use urban space to segregate ourselves. I find that neighborhood sorting, which can lead to segregation, is influenced heavily by people’s occupations, education, and how cities use land for housing”