Assessing neighborhoods, wealth differentials, and perceived inequality in preindustrial societies.

ABSTRACT: Humans often live in neighborhoods, nested socio-spatial clusters within settlements of varying size and population density. In today's cities, neighborhoods are often characterized as relatively homogenous and may exhibit segregation along various socioeconomic dimensions. However, even within neighborhoods of similar social or economic status, there is often residential disparity, which in turn impacts perceived inequality. Drawing on the Global Dynamics of Inequality (GINI) project database, we study housing inequality within a sample of neighborhoods using the Gini coefficient of residential unit area and related measures of inequality. We examine patterns of intracommunity inequality within more than 80 settlements from diverse spatiotemporal contexts including some of the earliest ci

SUBMITTER: Thompson AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12036974 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature