Habitar la ciudad desde la periferiatrayectorias residenciales y movilidad urbana en nuevos barrios de clases medias altas en Santiago de Chile

Abstract

The political and institutional arrangements inherited from the neoliberal project of the dictatorship and the incorporation of the country to the processes of globalization propitiate a change in the traditional pattern of residential segregation of the city of Santiago de Chile. This city, characterized by a strong social segmentation of the space, materialized in the concentration of the wealthy in the eastern part of the city, has been undergoing, during the past decades, a process in which there is a proliferation of enclosed urbanizations meant for the upper-middle classes, established in territories historically populated by the poor...