Socio-Spatial Inequalities in a Wealthy Capital: Revisiting Urban Models in Luxembourg City
Socio-spatial inequalities remain a significant feature of contemporary cities, even in contexts of high affluent contexts. This paper examines neighbourhood-level inequalities in Luxembourg City, one of Europe’s wealthiest capitals, where aggregate statistics often mask substantial internal disparities.
This paper makes two main contributions. First, it analyses a rich and globalised capital city that has rarely been studied at the neighbourhood scale. Second, it draws on an original and uniquely integrated dataset combining socio-economic, demographic, housing, and welfare indicators assembled from multiple administrative and institutional sources that have not previously been examined jointly.
Using a classical factorial ecology approach, the study identifies the principal dimensions of socio-spatial differentiation and situates Luxembourg City within broader comparative debates on contemporary urban forms and the drivers of social segregatio...

