Social differentiation of the territories of the largest European capital cities
The article deals with the social stratification analysis based on the immigrants' settlement pattern and housing prices. Social differentiation of urban areas is constantly changing under the influence of various factors, such as the immigrants' settlement pattern, the real estate prices, income, employment etc. The growing poly-ethnicity is among the most important problems of modern large cities. Ethnic conflicts have brought to light both difficulty and complexity of the problem: they were not caused just by mistakes in migration policies of different countries. The original hypothesis is that cheap real estate prices attract poorer residents, including immigrants, thus increasing the social conflicts.