Predominan en el medio académico y político las nociones "naturalistas" sobre la segregación social del espacio en las ciudades latinoamericanas. Las desigualdades o el "clasismo", hechos fuertes y persistentes, harían de la segregación algo inevitable; y de las propuesta para controlarla, algo ilus...

Este artículo tiene un carácter metodológico (una particular metodología cualitativa). No obstante, también se plantea la relación entre la propuesta metodológica y una concepción teórica de tipo constructivista (un constructivismo geográfico). En la primera parte del texto se desarrolla la perspect...

Mary Douglas famously argued that dirt is a by-product of order: something is perceived as‘dirty’to the extent that it does not match with cultural classificatory systems. Dirt is a heterogeneous, residual category which threatens social order by threatening people’s cogni- tive order. Against its p...

Mio cousin, although I do not like these people, would like to say: ‘As the whole world is a country, so all Italy is a province’, but it fails to do so, because he claims, as he is 30, every time he says ‘province’, instead of the province, the Province. In other words, my cousin, which is Trentino...

the historically shaped territorial model in Venezuela has been criticised since the 1s of the sixties of the last century by 1 different national administrations, on account of the 1th main responsibility for 1th social inequalities. Based on these criticisms, the current Venezuelan government has...

We could conceive a sociology of urban motilities associated to the act of going to work as composed of: 1. a dromology of displacements. This includes the study of speeds of material and immaterial (informational) transfers, kinetic energy in relation to the type of propulsion or fuel (animal, mech...

Two recent phenomena have deeply affected the know-space of the city: the failures of traditional data and the diffusion of digital traces. Indeed, urban decision-makers have lately revealed several discrepancies in relation to traditional data used in public policy, caused for example by excessivel...

The 20th century has been marked by changes and, above all, for women, it has brought about substantial changes both in their way of being and in their relations with the world. First of all, our position on the labour market has changed, allowing us, even in a thousand acrobazie, to acquire the aut...

Over the last three decades or so, or in what sociologists often prefer to call the era of ‘late modernity’, the post-war transformative rationales for the correctional system are said to have been replaced by a pragmatic, technologically-supported and quantification-oriented political rationality w...

The contribution of population movements to greenhouse gas emissions, in so far as they use mechanical means of transport, mainly cars, is indisputable. Many work agrees that this contribution amounts to 30 per cent of total emissions. However, not all means of transport have the same level of impac...

<p>In this article there is an attempt to focus in on the decline and disappearance of the concept of  narrative in the decline of the modern period and above all in the post-modern period,  wondering about the unknown future. It has to do with the story of  of  the progressive loss of the character...

In recent decades, small-sized cities have regained their leading role in urban systems, both in scientific literature and in international spatial planning and development strategies. As in the 1960s, these localities are gaining prominence as key components of regional development policies, becomi...

Smart Mobs are groups of individuals that emerges when there is no doubt that it is intended to do so when it is intended to do so: communication and computing technologies amplifying human talents for cooperation. Although that mobs have been studied from their impact in social and political struct...

Las actuales mayores necesidades residenciales metropolitanas se han suscitado principalmente por la modificación de las relaciones de parentesco, que han dado lugar a un aumento en las jefaturas de hogar y la consecuente contracción del tamaño promedio de los hogares. Junto con el avance de las pol...

<p>Cities are the collective expression of a society and in seaside cities this phenomenon acquires peculiar values, since maritime communities share a unitary identity in the remarkable link with maritime essence, ships and navigation. Maritime urban landscape may be really perceived only from the...

Desde una mirada latinoamericana -donde la Unión Europea (UE) es tomada como referencia de integración transnacional- se remarca inicialmente la incapacidad de revertir las asimetrías regionales y construir una Europa para todas las regiones mostrada por las agendas neoliberal y neorregionalista dom...

The following article describes how poverty and exclusion within Santiago has been overlooked in part due to the strong economic performance and positive set of social indicators that the city displays. It emphasises how segregated the city has become, underlining the political fragmentation and the...