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In London its not so much a problem as its very hard to build any kind of 'ghetto' due to vertiginous house prices and speculating (not for want of trying Im sure Londoners would create them if given half a chance), and traditional mixing of income types in housing - to this day all new developments, even the luxury ones have by law to devote 30-50% of itself to affordable homes. Meanwhile poor rundown areas are now being colonised by the middle classes unable to afford the rip-off prices demanded for in the city.

Also the Muslims in London have relatively low crime rates, even though some are very poor- some areas of the city such as Brick Lane and Whitechapel are some of the poorest, but adversely some of the safest. The word on the street for property buyers keen to get on the ladder is to try and move into areas mixed with traditional Muslim or West African communities, as the prices are cheap and the crime is low - the kind of areas attracting artists and creatives, and thus regeneration. Neighbourhoods such as Whitechapel, Hoxton (both with large Bangladeshi and Somali communities), Deptford (West African), Hackney (West African), Dalston (Turkish, Kurdish), are all now the coolest areas in the capital.

Nb In cairo its also a phenomenon, the Old City, Islamic Cairo is one of the worlds poorest areas, yet strangely one of the safest. Urbanists studying the phenomenon point toward the proximity of housing (any crime will almost always have a witness), combined with traditional values. A plan to build a new park nearby has even led to calls that this will increase the crime rate as it will open up the area.

...anyway Im a bit off track again, back to topic...