Escaping Car Dependence in the Outer Suburbs of Paris

Benjamin Motte-Baumvol, Marie-Hélène Massot and Andrew M. Byrd
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Benjamin Motte-Baumvol: Laboratoire ThéMA (UMR 6049), Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Universités, 2 avenue Gabriel, Dijon 21000, France, benjamin.motte@u-bourgogne.fr
Marie-Hélène Massot: Laboratoire Ville Mobilité Transport (UMR T9403), Université Paris-Est, 6-8 avenue Blaise Pascal, Cité Descartes F-77455 Marne la Vallée Cedex 2, France, massot@inrets.fr
Andrew M. Byrd: Laboratoire Ville Mobilité Transport (UMR T9403), Université Paris-Est, 6-8 avenue Blaise Pascal, Cité Descartes F-77455 Marne la Vallée Cedex 2, France, andrew.byrd@enpc.fr

Urban Studies, 2010, vol. 47, issue 3, 604-619

Abstract: The outer suburbs of Paris are home to a large number of low-income households driven from the centre by the workings of the property market. This shift could give rise to a new form of socio-spatial segregation insofar as the elevated costs of mobility in such highly car-dependent areas restrict and change these households’ mobility patterns. These effects were observed in data on three groups of working people from the 2001 global transport survey. However, the socio-spatial impact of this outward movement is significantly reduced by the residential mobility of low-income households, which move from the most car-dependent areas to denser areas with better public transport provision. The presence of social housing in these areas only partially explains these migrations. These results obtained from 1999 census micro-data cast doubt upon the emergence of a new form of segregation in the outer suburbs described by Dodson and Sipe.

Date: 2010
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