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Mobility Challenges in Santiago de Chile: Improving Diagnosis and the Need to Shift the Understanding of Urban Inequality from Fixed Enclaves to Mobile Gradients

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Abstract

Many urban development interventions currently being implemented in cities in developing countries around the world arguably evidence a major blind spot with regard to their understanding of the ways in which contemporary urban living occurs, and how it is changing under processes related to both globalization and specific national and local issues. In particular, a key factor influencing contemporary forms of urban living relates to the unprecedented manner in which mobility, in its multiple forms, now impacts on urban dwellers’ lives, especially when compared to the past. Certainly, as the recent ‘mobility turn’ in the social sciences — see Cresswell (2006), Hannam et al. (2006), Sheller and Urry (2006a, 2006b), and Urry (2007), for example — has pointed out, the proliferation of different types of mobility — including migration, tourism, residential mobility, and daily mobility, amongst others — unavoidably has an impact on the organization of contemporary everyday life, and therefore constitutes a significant vector for the analysis of urban processes.

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  1. Paola Jirón
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  1. School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK

    Dennis Rodgers (Professor of Urban Social and Political Research) (Professor of Urban Social and Political Research)

  2. UNU-WIDER, UK

    Jo Beall (Director of Education and Society) (Director of Education and Society)

  3. Cornell University, USA

    Ravi Kanbur (T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics) (T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics)

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Jirón, P. (2012). Mobility Challenges in Santiago de Chile: Improving Diagnosis and the Need to Shift the Understanding of Urban Inequality from Fixed Enclaves to Mobile Gradients. In: Rodgers, D., Beall, J., Kanbur, R. (eds) Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century. Studies in Development Economics and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137035134_4

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