Differential location, dissimilar ways of living. Analyzing segregation in everyday mobility

Abstract

The objective of this article is to identify and conceptualize differential urban segregation dynamics in informal settlements with different locations based on an analysis of the daily mobility practices and ways of living of their residents. Specifically, it focuses on two towns in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (Argentina) that have a different insertion in the urban structure: Villa 15 and Rodrigo Bueno. In this key, we analyze daily mobility practices in dialogue with the structure of services, equipment, and available transport. As a result of this analysis, we show that the location of the informal settlements and the available equipment enable different ways of traveling and practicing the city, generating differential effects on segregation. In this city, which presents a centripetal structure of its benefits, residing in informal neighborhoods located around the center allows greater access to a set of urban opportunities.