Santiago Chile: City of cities? Social inequalities in local labour market zones: Luis Fuentes, Oscar Mac-Clure, Cristóbal Moya and Camilo Olivos

Fuentes, Luis; Mac-Clure, Óscar; Moya, Cristóbal; Olivos, Camilo

doi:10.18356/ac128476-en

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“…This will be increasingly possible as the availability of detailed spatio-temporal mobile phone data increases. Approaches as the one proposed here will hence allow for a much better understanding of the structure of the city when compared with analyses from origin-destination or other conventional surveys [ 11 , 14 , 44 , 45 ]. In particular, the communities found here confirm sociological descriptions that roughly divide Santiago into a rich part in the foothills to the east, and a less affluent zone to the west and south [ 41 , 42 ].…”

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The time geography of segregation during working hours

2018

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While segregation is usually evaluated at the residential level, the recent influx of large streams of data describing urbanites’ movement across the city allows to generate detailed descriptions of spatio-temporal segregation patterns across the activity space of individuals. For instance, segregation across the activity space is usually thought to be lower compared with residential segregation given the importance of social complementarity, among other factors, shaping the economies of cities. However, these new dynamic approaches to segregation convey important methodological challenges. This paper proposes a methodological framework to investigate segregation during working hours. Our approach combines three well-known mathematical tools: community detection algorithms, segregation metrics and random walk analysis. Using Santiago (Chile) as our model system, we build a detailed home–work commuting network from a large dataset of mobile phone pings and spatially partition the city into several communities. We then evaluate the probability that two persons at their work location will come from the same community. Finally, a randomization analysis of commuting distances and angles corroborates the strong segregation description for Santiago provided by the sociological literature. While our findings highlights the benefit of developing new approaches to understand dynamic processes in the urban environment, unveiling counterintuitive patterns such as segregation at our workplace also shows a specific example in which the exposure dimension of segregation is successfully studied using the growingly available streams of highly detailed anonymized mobile phone registries.

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The time geography of segregation during working hours

2018

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“…This high degree of precarity is illustrated by the unequal geography of access to public goods and job opportunities in Santiago, the capital, which are expressed spatially through significant differences between zones in terms of income and access to high‐quality education, healthcare and green spaces, as well as access to work (Fuentes et al, 2017).…”

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Inequality and the Socioeconomic Dimensions of Mobility in Protests: The Cases of Quito and Santiago

Pabón

Ludeña

2021

Global Policy

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Mobility is a multifaceted concept with social, economic and political implications. This article reflects on the role of mobility and its relation to precarity in the emergence of protests in both Quito (Ecuador) and Santiago (Chile) in 2019 by examining the interplay between mobility and inequality. It argues that the announced increases in transport and fuel costs in Chile and Ecuador exposed obstacles to spatial and social mobility and existing inequalities. Although the protests arose in response to the announced reduction in fuel subsidies and possible increases in transport costs, we propose that they reflect a deeper issue, relating to the vulnerability of the livelihoods of significant segments of the population, despite the fact that both Quito and Santiago have seen improvements in several poverty and inequality indicators in recent years. We discuss how mobility and geography relate to patterns of structural marginalisation that are not necessarily evident from aggregate economic indicators, and how understanding inequality in terms of the ‘right to the city’ and access to public services explain the protests in both countries as a response to existing segregation and deep‐seated inequalities.

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“…Unveiling the "unequal geography of opportunities" is especially relevant in highly unequal cities and societies such as Chile's most populated cities [31,32]. In Chile, education and health show significant differences between private and public sectors in their resources, quality, and outcomes in the context of highly segregated territories [33][34][35][36]. Indices that integrate population data and wellbeing with geographical approaches in urban and rural settings are relevant sources of information for policy makers and researchers [37,38].…”

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Redrawing Cities with Children and Adolescents: Development of a Framework and Opportunity Index for Wellbeing—The REDibuja Study Protocol

Aguilar-Farías

Mella

Cortínez-O’Ryan

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IJERPH

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Global changes require urgent integration of health and wellbeing into all urban policies. Complex social and environmental factors define wellbeing outcomes and inequities present in cities. Additionally, political decisions are seldom thought and developed considering the needs and participation of children and adolescents. The REDibuja study aims to develop a multidimensional framework of wellbeing for children and adolescents and to validate an index of opportunities for better wellbeing for children and adolescents in the urban context of Temuco, Chile. This child-centered and cross-sectional study will involve mixed methodologies throughout the implementation of five work packages for two years (2022–2023): (1) development of a conceptual framework for child and adolescent wellbeing, (2) integration of available and public data, (3) studies in the local context, (4) data integration using geographic information systems, and (5) validation of the wellbeing opportunity index for children and adolescents. REDibuja will implement methodologies that until now are little used to facilitate political decisions in our regional context. This process and results could be transferred for assessment and decision-making in Latin America and low- and middle-income countries in other regions.

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Santiago Chile: City of cities? Social inequalities in local labour market zones: Luis Fuentes, Oscar Mac-Clure, Cristóbal Moya and Camilo Olivos

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

The time geography of segregation during working hours

The time geography of segregation during working hours

Inequality and the Socioeconomic Dimensions of Mobility in Protests: The Cases of Quito and Santiago

Redrawing Cities with Children and Adolescents: Development of a Framework and Opportunity Index for Wellbeing—The REDibuja Study Protocol

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