Milan: Record incomes and struggling suburbs – a growth that creates divisions

Thursday, Feb 19, 2026

Il Sole 24 Ore

European cities like Milan show wealth alongside precarious living conditions and social inequality in suburbs.

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Major European cities like Milan, Paris, Athens, and Madrid exhibit both prosperity and significant inequality. These economic and cultural hubs feature areas of affluence alongside peripheries suffering from housing insecurity, limited access to services, and social marginalization, indicating that urban development often outpaces social fabric, creating “two-speed” cities with uneven opportunity distribution.

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