SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF URBAN SPACE

Abstract

This article deals with the place of urban space in there production of social inequality in the world cities. Recently, different studies have highlighted the reduction of income inequality in most of the world countries during the last decade, on the other hand, for at least a decade, urban studies in the region have drawn attention to a growing process of socio-spatial fragmentation in the world cities. Both lines of research dialogue in this article allow us to pose a paradoxical scenario: while in the last decade many countries in the region have implemented policies that managed to reduce (slightly) income inequality.