Abstract

ResumenLa urbanización es interpretada como un indicador del progreso. Cuanto más urbanizado es un territorio, más desarrollado y generador de riqueza se le presupone. Sin embargo, aunque es indudable que existe una estrecha interrelación entre los cambios territoriales y los socioeconómicos, sería ilusorio pensar que los actuales procesos de urbanización solo presentan facetas positivas. Las problemáticas de la ciudad también se han expandido con ella, haciéndose cada vez más complejas en sus características y consecuencias. El aumento de la diferenciación social y la desigualdad se reproduce hoy especialmente a través del ‘efecto barrio’. Sus causas son los depurados mecanismos que generan la segregación residencial. En ellos se combinan complejos procesos de diferenciación, expulsión, atracción y homogeneización de los diversos grupos sociales; influenciados tanto por la construcción social del espacio urbano en perspectiva histórica como por la coyuntura político-económica actual. Todo ello ha dado lugar a la formación de complejos patrones de segregación en las áreas metropolitanas, que se suman a los acuciantes retos que enfrentan estos vastos territorios urbanos, administrativamente fragmentados y sin una ordenación territorial ni gobernanza integradas.AbstractUrbanisation is interpreted as an indicator of progress. The more urbanised a territory is, the more developed and wealth-generating it is assumed to be. However, although there is undoubtedly a close interrelationship between territorial and socio-economic changes, it would be illusory to think that current urbanisation processes only have positive facets. The problems of the city have also expanded with it, becoming increasingly complex in their characteristics and consequences. The increase in social differentiation and inequality is reproduced today especially through the 'neighbourhood effect'. Its causes are the refined mechanisms that generate residential segregation. They combine complex processes of differentiation, expulsion, attraction, and homogenisation of different social groups, influenced both by the social construction of urban space in historical perspective and by the current political and economic situation. All this has led to the formation of complex patterns of segregation in metropolitan areas, which add to the pressing challenges facing these vast urban territories, which are administratively fragmented and lack integrated planning and governance.

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