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- Title
Urbanización informal y ciudad desigual, controversias territoriales en una localidad de León, Guanajuato.
- Authors
Gasca Moreno, Claudia Teresa; García Gómez, Miguel Ángel
- Abstract
The objective of this article is to analyze the dynamics of informal urbanization and its territorial configuration as a result of neoliberal policies that affect the way the city grows and expands. We examine the case of San Juan de Abajo, a peri-urban town in the city of León, Guanajuato, that comes as an answer to a demand for housing by a low-income population that lives outside of mechanisms that allow access to formal urban space. Through a documentary review, we examine its origins as a precarious informal settlement and, with the help of the ethnographic method, we explore its configuration, describe the urban environment and the main problems faced by its inhabitants in daily life; the results show that this settlement is not only a consequence of an unplanned expansion it also comes as a material expression of urban inequality that leads some population to find in informality an opportunity to inhabit the city.
- Subjects
URBANIZATION; NEOLIBERALISM; LOW-income countries; SETTLEMENT costs; EQUALITY
- Publication
Relaciones: Estudios de Historia y Sociedad, 2021, Vol 42, Issue 166, p148
- ISSN
0185-3929
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24901/rehs.v42i166.766