Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Am J Community Psychol. 2017 Jun;59(3-4):272-275. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12137. Epub 2017 Apr 3.
There is a long literature extolling the virtues of diversity for both the civility and economic performance of nations and cities. On the most basic level, diversity helps nations and cities attract the wide range of creative talent that drives innovation and economic growth. Yet similarly, there is a large amount of literature on the sorting and segregation of different types of people into distinct communities. This in turn undermines the very mixing of people and groups required for economic prosperity to flourish. This essay looks at the conundrum between diversity and segregation. It argues that both are increasingly salient, interdependent, and interconnected features of large, advanced cities or metropolitan areas. This diversity-segregation conundrum is increasingly a core feature of our social and economic landscape. It reviews several recent studies that highlight this problem, as well as some of my own very recent empirical findings on the issue.
有大量文献赞美多样性对国家和城市的文明和经济表现的好处。在最基本的层面上，多样性有助于国家和城市吸引广泛的创新和经济增长所需的创造性人才。然而，同样也有大量文献论述了不同类型的人如何被分类和隔离到不同的社区。这反过来又破坏了经济繁荣所必需的人员和群体的混合。本文探讨了多样性和隔离之间的难题。它认为，多样性和隔离都是大型先进城市或大都市区日益突出、相互依存和相互关联的特征。这种多样性-隔离的难题日益成为我们社会和经济格局的核心特征。本文回顾了几项最近的研究，强调了这个问题，以及我自己最近关于这个问题的一些实证发现。
