Social Mix
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2019
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Wiley-Blackwell
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“Social mix” generally denotes the social diversity of a given geographic area, which could be economically, racially, ethnically, and/or culturally based. It is a long-standing planning ideal, has been achieved through different means, has been proposed for a wide variety of goals, and has been used interchangeably to refer to concepts like “integration,” “mixed-income communities,” “poverty deconcentration,” “balanced communities,” and so on. There has been abundant literature from the 1990s, to the extent that social mix is currently one of the most studied subjects in the field, with at least five special issues of prominent academic journals dedicated to the topic. Although the evidence on the effects of social mix is somewhat mixed, the problems of its conceptual foundations and the amount and variety of issues created when implemented have led the large majority of academia to oppose this idea.
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Ruiz-Tagle, Javier. Social Mix. In: Orum, Anthony,editors. Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell; 2019. p. 1911-1916.