Increased segregation is a general trend that can be observed in many Finnish cities over recent decades.
There are especially concerns that deprivation has become increasingly multilayered and concentrated particularly in certain suburban areas that are dominated by multi-story housing. As creating more sustainable cities and counteracting segregation are explicit policy aims at both the national level and in many Finnish cities, these developments can be considered problematic. This study seeks to enrich the understanding of such areas both in Finland overall and in different types of Finnish regions and cities. Relying on different sets of georeferenced data, particularly grid-level statistics, the aim of the research is to uncover what kind of socio-economic and demographic changes have occurred over time in multi-story suburban neighborhoods along with analyzing characteristics of the built environment and housing stock.
