12^th September 2025

ABOUT

The concept of residential segregation - the uneven distribution of social groups across urban space - relies on the assumption of homogenous neighbourhoods or statistical units. Consequently, segregation is measured by the uneven distribution between these units. Empirical findings across Europe put this assumption in question; several publications show a high social variety on a very low spatial scale: between individual residential buldings, or even within an individual building. Although this debate on segregation on a microscale has emerged in the last years, it is a historic phenomenon: residential buildings in 19th-century metropolises like Paris displayed a very pronounced vertical social differentiation.

The intention of this workshop is firstly to strenghten the exchange and cooperation between scholars in this field, and secondly to discuss methodological challenges as well as conceptual foundations of microsegregation. For this purpose, we invite students and scholars that are working in the field of urban studies and housing studies to participate on this workshop.