Mazorra Rodríguez, Álvaro2025-02-202025-02-202024-06Álvaro Mazorra Rodríguez, Social inequality and residential segregation trends in Spanish global cities. A comparative analysis of Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia (2001-2021), Cities, Volume 149, 2024, 104935, ISSN 0264-2751, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.104935.0264-2751; eISSN: 1873-6084https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.104935https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/25941La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en Cities, Volume 149, 2024, 104935, ISSN 0264-2751, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.104935. The registered version of this article, first published in Cities, Volume 149, 2024, 104935, ISSN 0264-2751, is available online at the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.104935.Over the last three decades, the most populated Spanish cities have experienced significant spatial, social, and economic changes. The new urban economies have played an essential role in the acceleration of such transformations, entailing a range of both positive and negative impacts at the spatial, social, economic, and environmental levels. This paper presents a quantitative analysis of how the advancement of the globalization and deindustrialization processes has encouraged social polarization in the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia, as well as a significant increase in intra-urban socioeconomic residential segregation. The article concludes by arguing that the increase in levels of social inequality and residential segregation reflects the trend towards polarized urban models, which reproduce in urban space the differences observed in the social structure.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess63 SociologíaartículoGlobalizationSocial inequalityResidential segregationGentrification Polarization