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Land Webinar | Urban Micro-Segregation: Taking Segregation Analysis at the Micro Level

Name: Land Webinar | Urban Micro-Segregation: Taking Segregation Analysis at the Micro Level
Start: 2026-04-28T16:00:00
End: 2026-04-28T18:00:00

28 April 2026

16:00 (CEST)

Online

Welcome from
the chairs

Urban micro-segregation, which refers to small-scale segregation below the scale of the neighborhood, is an emerging topic in urban research and poses new questions for segregation studies:

It examines the multiple forms of urban micro-segregation in different urban contexts across the world.
It investigates the mechanisms that produce urban micro-segregation and the trends in their reproduction.
It evaluates the importance of urban micro-segregation for social reproduction in terms of its impact on social inequalities and discrimination.

Emerging research on urban micro-segregation provides a deeper analysis of the function of social (and/or ethno-racial) mixing and separation below the neighborhood level, promoting discussion of the effective relationship between social and spatial distance and its impact on social reproduction. This leads to a better understanding of different types of social mixes and their characteristics, which must be addressed to facilitate urban policies promoting social integration and cohesion.

This webinar is a follow-up of the edited volume Vertical Cities (Edward Elgar, 2022) and a Special Issue of Land, “Urban Micro-Segregation”. It gathers evidence on micro-segregation forms from diverse metropolitan contexts across the planet and explores how social reproduction and urban micro-segregation are shaped by global and local forces.

Date: 28 April 2026

Time: 4:00 pm (CEST) | 10:00 am (EDT)

Webinar ID: 834 7378 2639

Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com

Meet the Event Chairs

Prof. Dr. Thomas Maloutas

National Centre for Social Research & Harokopio University, Greece

Prof. Dr. Sainan Lin

Wuhan University, China

Prof. Dr. John Logan

Brown University, USA

Meet Our Speakers

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Prof. Karin Grundström

Malmö university, Sweden;

Prof. Christine Lelévrier

Université Paris-Est-Créteil, France;
Christine Lelévrier is an urban sociologist. Her research interests include segregation and ethnic minorities, residential mobility and regeneration policies in large housing estates in Europe (Sweden, Denmark, Germany and UK). Over the past ten years, she has conducted several research projects on the trajectories of forced relocated people and then, on socio-urban change in renewed neighbourhoods. She has also been involved in a European project on diversity “divercities, governing urban diversity” (2013-2017). Her recent research has also been focused on the reception policies and experiences of migrants in medium-sized cities, and since 2025 on micro-gentrification in the railway stations’ neigbhourhoods around the “Grand Paris”.She has conducted comparative European research on regeneration projects in France and Sweden and since 2026, on mixed-tenure large housing estates in London.

Dr. Thomas Pfirsch

Université Polytechnique Hauts de France, France;
Thomas Pfirsch is associate professor in geography at the Université Polytechnique Hauts de France (UPHF, Valenciennes), and a member of the Géographie-Cités lab (CNRS). His research deals with urban and social geography, particularly in Italian and Southern European cities. His work focuses on privileged spaces and mobilities, and on family geographies. He recently published Familles sans frontières ? Le cas des nouvelles migrations italiennes à Paris (ENS Editions, 2025).

Dr. Robert Musil

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria;
Robert Musil studied geography and history at the University of Vienna and finished his PhD at the University Innsbruck in 2005. His cumulative habilitation work in the field of human geography was approved in 2015 at the University of Vienna. Since 2001, Robert Musil has been a researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research (ISR); between 2007 and 2009 he was post-doc assistant at the University of Salzburg, and between 2014 and 2016 he was visiting professor for economic geography at the University of Vienna. Robert Musil has led the research group „Innovation and Urban Economy“ since 2016 and since January 1, 2026, he has been appointet director of the ISR. His research interests lie at the juncture of economic and urban geography, including the areas of housing-market research, spatial innovation, and comparative urban research. His current methodology includes small-scale analyses at the level of individual buildings and building complexes, as well as the geostatical analysis on the individual scale.

Mr. Jiannis Kaucic

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria;
Jiannis Kaucic holds a master’s degree in Geography from the University of Vienna (2012) and was scientific staff at the Austrian Institute for Spatial Planning (2012-2017), as well as university assistant at the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna (2017-2022). Since May 2022, Jiannis Kaučić is working as scientific staff at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research (ISR). His research focuses on explaining spatial patterns and mechanisms of socioeconomic inequality, as well as on the impact of urban and regional development processes on society. His ongoing dissertation examines the influence of regional housing market segmentation on residential segregation in small and medium-sized towns.