Assessing urban environmental segregation (UES). The case of Santiago de Chile

Romero, Hugo; Vásquez, Aléxis; Fuentes, Claudio; Salgado, Marcela; Schmidt, Andreas; Banzhaf, Ellen

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.03.012

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“…As a consequence, segregation might imply different residential distributions with different densities of population, different types of houses, and also different public and private green spaces (Weiland et al 2011;Romero et al 2012). There is a concern that access to the countryside and urban green spaces by different ethnic and religious groups is limited.…”

Section: Urban Green Spaces and Their Social Function And Usagementioning

confidence: 99%

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Many public urban parks, but who profits from them? The example of Tabriz, Iran

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Rahimi

2015

Ecol Process

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Introduction: Public urban parks are accessible to everyone in a city. The time people need to reach a public park influences the accessibility of the park. Parks far away from home are less accessible because of time to spend to reach them than those in the neighborhood. Good green urban infrastructure aims to provide different types of parks (by size and structure) to all urban dwellers. The network of parks should allow all inhabitants to have access to parks within close proximity to their residences.

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Section: Urban Green Spaces and Their Social Function And Usagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…To identify socially segregated areas according to socioeconomic groups, we used the results of studies by Adimark (2004) and Romero et al (2012) . Using these data, the socio-economic groups have been broken down into three categories: high, middle, and low.…”

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Many public urban parks, but who profits from them? The example of Tabriz, Iran

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Rahimi

2015

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“…In addition, the east and the south, where low-income families reside, also present worst environmental conditions, such as higher concentration of air pollutants and lower protection levels against natural hazards like floods [58]. While the distribution of environmental conditions is the result of the urbanization process and more affluent peoples' location choices in areas of better environmental standards (under the Andean cordillera, where air pollutants and water flow downstream), the uneven distribution of urban vegetation does not provide adequate natural conditions to alleviate environmental problems in low-income settlements, thus, reinforcing environmental injustice and segregation [59].…”

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Understanding Density in an Uneven City, Santiago de Chile: Implications for Social and Environmental Sustainability

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Gainza

2014

Sustainability

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Efforts to promote infill development and to raise densities are growing in many cities around the world as a way to encourage urban sustainability. However, in cities polarized along socio-economic lines, the benefits of densification are not so evident. The aim of this paper is to discuss some of the contradictions of densification in Santiago de Chile, a city characterized by socio-spatial disparities. To that end, we first use regression analysis to explain differences in density rates within the city. The regression analysis shows that dwelling density depends on the distance from the city center, socioeconomic conditions, and the availability of urban attributes in the area. After understanding the density profile, we discuss the implications for travel and the distribution of social infrastructures and the environmental services provided by green areas. While, at the metropolitan scale, densification may favor a more sustainable travel pattern, it should be achieved by balancing density rates and addressing spatial differences in the provision of social services and environmental amenities. We believe a metropolitan approach is essential to correct these spatial imbalances and to promote a more sustainable and socially cohesive growth pattern.

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“…This urban area covers over 60,000 ha [57] and is home to approximately 6.5 million inhabitants [58]. Population is highly segregated with higher income groups clustered in municipalities in the northeastern cone of the city (e.g., Las Condes, Lo Barnechea, Providencia, and Vitacura), and low income groups spread to the southern and northwestern areas [59].…”

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Breaking Resilient Patterns of Inequality in Santiago de Chile: Challenges to Navigate towards a More Sustainable City

2016

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Abstract:Resilience can have desirable and undesirable consequences. Thus, resilience should not be viewed as a normative desirable goal, but as a descriptor of complex systems dynamics. From this perspective, we apply resilience thinking concepts to assess the dynamics of inequality, spatial segregation, and sustainability in Chile's capital city of Santiago. Chile's economy boosted since democracy was restored in 1990, but continuity of neoliberal reforms and transformations of Pinochet's dictatorship (1973)(1974)(1975)(1976)(1977)(1978)(1979)(1980)(1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990) seem to have locked Chilean cities in resilient, albeit unsustainable, patterns of uneven development. Socio-economic data from Santiago shows highly resilient patterns of urban inequality and segregation from 1992 to 2009 despite democratic efforts, political agendas and discourses packed with calls for reducing poverty and inequality. We present a conceptual model based on the notion of stability landscapes to explore potential trade-offs between resilience and sustainable development. We mapped Santiago's spatio-temporal inequality trends and explored if these patterns support an inequality-resilience stability landscape. Analysis of temporal and spatial distribution of development assets across four human development dimensions (i.e., income, education, health, democracy) revealed potential socio-political and spatial feedbacks supporting the resilience of inequality and segregation in Santiago. We argue that urban sustainability may require breaking this resilience, a process where bottom-up stressors such as social movements could play a key role.

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Assessing urban environmental segregation (UES). The case of Santiago de Chile

Cited by 78 publications

References 15 publications

Many public urban parks, but who profits from them? The example of Tabriz, Iran

Many public urban parks, but who profits from them? The example of Tabriz, Iran

Understanding Density in an Uneven City, Santiago de Chile: Implications for Social and Environmental Sustainability

Breaking Resilient Patterns of Inequality in Santiago de Chile: Challenges to Navigate towards a More Sustainable City

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