Socio-economic residential differentiation in post-socialist Tallinn

• Published in: Journal of housing and the built environment Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 49 - 73
• Main Authors: RUOPPILA, SAMPO, KÄHRIK, ANNELI
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Cities; City districts; Dwellings; Economics; Households; Housing; Housing subsidies; Income inequality; Inner cities; Inner city; Low income groups; Mobility; Neighborhoods; Population; Poverty; Rentals; Single family; Social groups; Socialism; Socioeconomic factors; Socioeconomics; Statistical analysis; Studies; Tallinn Estonia; Estonia

It is widely agreed that residential differentiation has increased in Central and Eastern European cities since the collapse of communism. This article analyses the pattern of socio-economic residential differentiation in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, and shows that by 1999 Tallinn's eight c...