Well-being in the Paris region: widening regional disparities despite overall improvement

Lise Bourdeau-Lepage (1) , Elisabeth Tovar (2)

1 CRGA - Centre de Recherche de Géographie et Aménagement (Lyon 3)
2 EconomiX - EconomiX

Has the socio-spatial divide widened over the past 10 years in the Paris region? Using an original method inspired by the work of Amartya Sen to measure the distribution of well-being in the Paris region between 1999 and 2006, Lise Bourdeau-Lepage and Élisabeth Tovar come to a rather pessimistic conclusion: the general rise in well-being actually masks widening regional disparities and setbacks in the northern suburbs of Paris, which are increasingly disadvantaged.

Mots clés: Well-being; Paris; spatial disparities

Domaines: Géographie; Economies et finances

Lise Bourdeau-Lepage, Elisabeth Tovar. Well-being in the Paris region: widening regional disparities despite overall improvement. Métropolitiques, 2011, http://www.metropolitiques.eu/Well-being-in-the-Paris-region.html. ⟨hal-00950826⟩