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One current societal pressure is increasing inequality both between nations and inside nations, noting that some form of inequality is as old as human society. Part 1 looks into how inequality has been involved in the collapse of societies in the past. It shows how inequality developed alongside societal development, and how this can be traced in the built environment. How the clustering of elite groups in cities has had an impact on the built environment is explored and the process of gentrification, which is looked at in detail in Part 2, is introduced. Part 1 concludes by looking into the way the built environment plays a role in increasing the complexity of societies through the real estate market and the real estate speculation.
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Garcia, E., Vale, B., Vale, R. (2021). Inequality, Collapse and the Built Environment. In: Collapsing Gracefully: Making a Built Environment that is Fit for the Future. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77783-8_6
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