Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword. Territorial Capital and Spatial Inequalities -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Metropolization and Territorial Inequalities -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. T200 years of territorial inequalities -- 1.2.1. The development of the French metropolitan area -- 1.2.2. Processes of population concentration and deconcentration -- 1.2.3. The spatiotemporal model and territorial inequalities -- 1.3. Metropolization: 30 years of changing territorial inequalities -- 1.3.1. Methodology and databases -- 1.3.2. The majority of French household income is concentrated in suburban rings -- 1.3.3. Higher incomes in suburban areas than in the city centers -- 1.3.4. Fewer territorial disparities in areas polarized by small and medium-sized cities -- 1.3.5. Typology of territorial inequalities -- 1.3.6. Rapid growth in per capita incomes in periurban rings -- 1.3.7. Geographic inequalities in terms of income per capita -- 1.4. Wealth circulation and the reshaping of territorial inequalities -- 1.4.1. The economic base theory: an operational conceptual framework for the analysis of income flows -- 1.4.2. Productive residential systems -- 1.4.3. PRSs and territorial development -- 1.5. Conclusion -- 1.6. Appendices -- 1.7. References -- Chapter 2. Inequalities in Territorial Development: Enigmas and Threats -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The evolution of development inequalities -- 2.2.1. How should local or regional development be defined? -- 2.2.2. The widening of productive inequalities -- 2.2.3. Reducing inequalities in territorial income -- 2.2.4. Territorial inequalities do not equate to social inequalities -- 2.2.5. Policies for the "neighborhoods" or for the people? -- 2.2.6. Inequality and poverty -- 2.2.7. A reduction in territorial inequalities in terms of income.

2.3. Public mechanisms for territorial cohesion -- 2.3.1. Redistribution mechanisms for public funds -- 2.3.2. Interterritorial redistribution linked to social welfare budgets -- 2.3.3. The redistributive effects of public budgets between regions -- 2.3.4. Fragmented European cohesion -- 2.3.5. Unequal treatment of equals -- 2.3.6. The "Catalonia" effect -- 2.4. The risk of rejecting intranational solidarities -- 2.4.1. The revolt of the rich regions -- 2.4.2. Questioning the cohesion model -- 2.4.3. Wealthy regions independent of poor regions -- 2.5. References -- Chapter 3. Which Geographical Figures Should Be Mobilized Against Particular Territorial Inequalities? -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The Saint-Malo-Geneva line -- 3.2.1. An obscure and enlightened France -- 3.2.2. From map to policy -- 3.2.3. A paradoxical ingratitude? -- 3.3. The countryside and the city -- 3.3.1. The long persistence of a rural densely populated world -- 3.3.2. The marriage of the Republic and the countryside -- 3.3.3. Solidarity through networks -- 3.3.4. Cycles of inequality -- 3.4. The Paris-countryside divide -- 3.4.1. The meeting of Maurras and Stalin -- 3.4.2. Would France have won against Paris? -- 3.5. Conclusion -- 3.6. References -- Chapter 4. The Periurban Question -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Periurbanization in figures and tables -- 4.3. The revitalization of the countryside -- 4.4. Villages: from community to club -- 4.5. Unequal intermunicipal governments -- 4.6. When the periurbs rebel -- 4.7. City life in the countryside: an unequal dream -- 4.8. The Gilets jaunes crisis -- 4.9. From the right to the city to the right to the village? -- 4.10. The moral devaluation of the periurbs -- 4.11. From urban sprawl to the revitalization of the countryside: toward a reversal of the stigma? -- 4.12. Conclusion: beyond "peripheral France" -- 4.13. References.

Chapter 5. The European Union: Territorial Inequalities and Development Policy -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Inter-territorial inequalities in the framework of European construction -- 5.2.1. The reduction of territorial inequalities as a fundamental building block of the European project -- 5.2.2. An early awareness for a late political consideration -- 5.2.3. Maintaining the objective of reducing territorial inequalities in spite of major change -- 5.2.4. Substantive policies -- 5.2.5. The EU in the world: a relatively homogeneous space -- 5.3. The limits of EU action in the fight against territorial inequalities -- 5.3.1. Significant wealth inequalities at different levels within the EU -- 5.3.2. The 2008 financial crisis and the challenge to convergence -- 5.3.3. Beyond the financial and political framework of the EU's action to reduce territorial inequalities -- 5.3.4. Major conflicting objectives -- 5.3.5. A territorial approach of imperfect inequalities -- 5.3.6. A scientific approach lacking clarity -- 5.4. Conclusion -- 5.5. References -- Chapter 6. Medium-sized Cities and Territorial Inequalities -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. From positions to conditions: a brief history of planning and its relationship with territorial inequalities -- 6.2.1. Growth and redistribution: the idea of a certain "golden age" of planning (1950-1975) -- 6.2.2. Repairing and supporting territories "in transition" (1975-1995) -- 6.2.3. Animation and concentration: a shift from competitiveness to differentiation (1995 to the present) -- 6.2.4. Differentiation at the bedside of territorial inequalities? -- 6.3. Medium-sized cities: a long-term figure in the planning and the treatment of territorial inequalities -- 6.3.1. Medium-sized cities: elements of contextualization of a stratum of urban systems.

6.3.2. Medium-sized cities and a progressive differentiation of demographic dynamics and economic activity -- 6.3.3. Medium-sized cities and the permanence of a political object for treating territorial inequalities -- 6.4. Conclusion -- 6.5. References -- Chapter 7. Urban Segregation -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Emergence and uses of the notion of "segregation" -- 7.2.1. Segregation and the ghetto in the United States -- 7.2.2. The concept of "the ghetto" in France -- 7.3. Analyzing the causes of segregation -- 7.3.1. Segregation as the result of individual preferences -- 7.3.2. Segregation as a consequence of structural mechanisms -- 7.3.3. Segregation resulting from public policies -- 7.3.4. Segregation as the result of a combination of several processes -- 7.4. Methodological debates concerning the measurement of segregation -- 7.5. The effects of segregation -- 7.6. Anti-segregation policies -- 7.7. Conclusion -- 7.8. References -- List of Authors -- Index -- EULA.