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Residential segregation in medium-sized cities: urban morphology and productive vocation as impact factors

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No. 63 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2022.67727
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Socioeconomic residential segregation has become a characteristic element of Latin American cities, regardless of their size and configuration. Despite this, most studies have prioritized its observation in large metropolitan areas, without paying attention to the particularities of the segregation processes of other smaller city models. This study presents a comparative analysis, focusing on the 2000s, of the levels and patterns of segregation in three intermediate conurbation cities in the State of Colima, Mexico. These share an institutional and sociocultural framework, but exhibit different morphological and economic characteristics, which could be conditioning the way in which elite groups occupy urban space. Through the application and interpretation of the Dissimilarity and Delta indices with a disaggregation scale of the territory at the level of urban colonies, it is discussed about the segregative particularities of the intermediate-conurbation cities, and the influence that the urban morphology and the productive vocation have on the segregation processes of these three cities.

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Conurbation, medium-sized cities, residential segregation, social inequality.
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Galván Farías, A. G. ., & Rasse, A. (2022). Residential segregation in medium-sized cities: urban morphology and productive vocation as impact factors. Investigaciones Geográficas, (63), 24–45. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2022.67727
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Universidad de Chile
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