Internal Complexity and Socio-spatial Segregation of Groups in a Self-Organizing City

Abstract

As noted above, in Chap. 7, modern, or rather postmodern, cities are characterized by spatial, social and cultural pluralism and can thus be described as mosaics of coexisting cultural and social groups. In previous chapters we have studied this spatial—cultural mosaic in connection with two types of cultural groups: ‘old’ groups who emigrated to the city as already established cultural groups, and ‘new’ groups which only recently emerged as the dialectical products of the dynamics of the city itself. In this connection, we have studied, on the one hand, processes of spatio—cultural segregation and on the other, the very process of socio—spatial emergence.

By Itzhak Omer and the author