Quality of life and spatial inequality in London

• Autores: Paul Higgins, Josep Campanera, Alexandre Nobajas i Ganau
• Localización: European Urban & Regional Studies, ISSN-e 1461-7145, Vol. 21, Nº. 1, 2014, págs. 42-59
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In contrast to London�s image as a global city and its position as the most affluent region in Europe, the formally established empirical evidence assembled in this paper suggests that spatial inequality in the capital is a key economic and social problem that is unlikely to be resolved by the prevailing localism doctrine of the �big society�. Isolated from an initial and non-discriminate England-wide clustering analysis of 73 Audit Commission-defined quality of life indicators, the results of our study reveal that pivotal to London�s prevailing quality of life distribution is the influence of deprivation, health and educational inequalities, all of which are masked at a pure �inner� and �outer� London comparison, capable only of distinguishing the city�s borough-level transport and community safety diversity. The policy implications of our study are duly considered and several methodological insights are advanced for future research.