The middle classes and the subjective representation of urban space in Santiago de Chile

Fuentes, Luis; Mac-Clure, Óscar

doi:10.1177/0042098019881350

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“…These lifestyles seemed to embody a certain cosmopolitan atmosphere that make the urban environment look more modern and connected to distant and vibrant places that most citizens experience only through media. Further, the presence of bike-sharing users in less affluent zones contributes to "spread" these lifestyles and, to some extent, helps to blur the subjective perception of urban space that dominates Santiago [54].…”

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Public Bike Sharing Programs Under the Prism of Urban Planning Officials: The Case of Santiago de Chile

Mora

Morán²

2020

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Background: Public bike-sharing schemes have gained enormous popularity worldwide. However, so far most of the research has focused on issues regarding the functioning of these schemes in cities, with little attention on how these systems are perceived and managed by urban planning authorities, which is the aim of this paper. Methods: The analysis is set in Santiago, a highly segregated city composed of 37 independent districts. Two focus groups with urban planning authorities belonging to districts with and without functioning bike-sharing schemes were conducted. Information was processed using a thematic analysis framework, which permitted to reduce, reorganize, and analyze these testimonial data. Results: The main results show that bike-sharing schemes are perceived as being part of a larger phenomenon related to the city’s socio-economic differences. A series of issues emerged that are related to urban planning authorities limitations in terms of governance and availability of planning instruments and strategies to cope with contrasting realities of the city. It was noted that bike-sharing schemes are helping to improve a neighborhood image, while, at the same time, promoting contemporary and cosmopolitan lifestyles. However, the functioning of bike-sharing schemes also is a reminder of the fragmented and dysfunctional governance of Santiago.

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Public Bike Sharing Programs Under the Prism of Urban Planning Officials: The Case of Santiago de Chile

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Morán²

2020

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“…Subsequently, the previously mentioned study [54], adapted this indicator and used it as a variable to estimate the urban vitality index following Jane Jacobs' approaches, adding a category for other land uses and calculating the land use diversity based on the Shannon Index, used mainly in ecology to measure species diversity. Finally, other authors studied urban vitality in Santiago and concluded that this type of measurement broke the traditional scheme of analysis of the capital city of Chile and showed other patterns of urban space organization [32].…”

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“…Santiago is a city that has been widely studied in terms of urban segregation and growth [3,7,[25][26][27][28][29][30]; urban processes, such as gentrification [31], spatial boundaries and community identities [32,33]; and residential trajectories of the inhabitants of a specific place in the city, focusing on central [34] or peri-urban spaces [35].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The research by Delclòs-Alió and Miralles-Guasch, focused on empirically obtaining the variables proposed by Jacobs for urban vitality and posing a synthetic urban vitality index for the city of Barcelona. Furthermore, the research done by Xia, and others, on five megacities in China studied the relationship between urban vitality-measured by small business transaction data and nighttime lighting-and contemporary compact city characteristics, such as mixed land use and high density, finding a significant positive spatial autocorrelation between urban land use intensity and urban vitality [32]. Moreover, the study by Li, and others, for the city of Shangzhen in China focused on measuring the relationship between morphology and urban vitality [52].…”

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Impact of Land Use Diversity on Daytime Social Segregation Patterns in Santiago de Chile

2022

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Latin American cities are known for their high levels of marginality, segregation and inequality. As such, these issues have been the subject of substantial discussions in academia, with the predominant approach being the study of residential segregation, or what we call “nighttime segregation”. Another dimension of urban sociability, related to labor, is what we call “daytime segregation”, which has been far less studied. This article makes an original methodological contribution to the measurement of non-residential or daytime segregation based on data from mobility surveys. It seeks to explain this segregation measurement according to the diversity and distribution of land uses, as well as other characteristics of the built stock, such as land price and built-up density. We measured daytime social mix in urban spaces, and we show how it highly relates to land use diversity in a Latin American megacity, such as Santiago, Chile. We found that land use diversity plays a key role in enhancing the daytime social diversity of urban spaces, contributing to generate a more heterogeneous city and social gatherings during working days. This research is not only a contribution to the understanding of sociability patterns in cities but is also a contribution to public policy and the work of urban planners, as it informs the development of more diverse and integrated cities, which is a key tool for strengthening democracy, the exchange of ideas, the economy and social welfare.

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“…Both support social closure around groups, as they invoke feelings of similarity and difference and limit access to membership (Jarness, 2017). For instance, those in upper-middle classes may be critical of those above them, while those in lower-middle classes may draw boundaries to distinguish themselves from lower classes (Fuentes & Mac-Clure, 2020).…”

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Is everyone really middle class? Social class position and identification in Alberta

Maroto

Brown

Durou

2023

Canadian Review of Sociology

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In defining social class, researchers often rely on measures of objective class position, even though subjective perceptions of social class identity can better account for the creation of social class boundaries. We explore the relationship between measures of objective class position and subjective class identity using data from an online survey of 1155 residents in Alberta, Canada, a conservative province dependent on a fluctuating energy sector. We find that although most Albertans identified as middle class, the strength of class identity and views regarding linked social class fates varied across categories with poverty class and uppermiddleclass respondents standing out. In reporting class identity, respondents considered measures related to objective class position, especially their income and economic security levels, but gaps still remained. We then use the results of this exploratory study to advocate for more comprehensive measures of social class. RÉSUMÉ Dans leur tentative de définir les classes sociales, les chercheurs s'appuient sur des mesures objectives desThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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The middle classes and the subjective representation of urban space in Santiago de Chile

Cited by 10 publications

References 45 publications

Public Bike Sharing Programs Under the Prism of Urban Planning Officials: The Case of Santiago de Chile

Public Bike Sharing Programs Under the Prism of Urban Planning Officials: The Case of Santiago de Chile

Impact of Land Use Diversity on Daytime Social Segregation Patterns in Santiago de Chile

Is everyone really middle class? Social class position and identification in Alberta

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