“…In line with similar trends in other Latin American countries over the past few decades (Bárcena and Serra, 2010; Ferreira et al, 2013; Stampini et al, 2015), an increase in the number of individuals employed in the service sector, along with a sustained growth in income that has resulted in the reduction of poverty, have also increased the percentage of Chile’s population considered to be middle class (Barozet and Fierro, 2011). The presence of this new middle class has generated new patterns of urban development, which have in turn altered inequalities between and within cities (Fuentes et al, 2017).…”