Construyendo una lupa para mirar la división social del espacio en la ciudad de Buenos Aires: la segregación residencial revisitada en diferentes escalas

[摘要] Residential segregation is a characteristic of the capitalist metropolis and, therefore, of Latin American cities. Academic literature within the region has approached this subject in two different ways. On one hand, it has focused in the analysis of segregation patterns that are characteristic of Latin American metropolitan areas. On the other, literature has also been geared towards the search about daily life in segregated environments. Thus, although we find a considerable knowledge in the region about different aspects of residential segregation processes, little has been inquired into matters related to the effects of socio-territorial scales in the examination of such processes. Within this framework, the present study tries to recover the importance of socio-territorial scales in order to understand the composition and characteristics of segregated environments in Latin American metropolises, in general, and in the City of Buenos Aires, in particular. Based on the results of a research that investigates the transformations that have taken place in the old peripheries of Buenos Aires, in general, and in the different types of habitat located there, in particular, the paper reviews the importance of scale when dealing with residential segregation and inquires about the way in which the change of scale summons the factors that intervene in the definition of large scale segregation patterns and accounts for the way in which such factors operate at a micro scale.

[学科分类] 建筑学