Abstract

BOLDRINI PERALTA, Paula; DEL CASTILLO, Alejandra  and  MALIZIA, Matilde. Living conditions and socio-spatial fragmentation in the Agglomerate Gran San Miguel de Tucumán (noroeste argentino). Estudios Socioterritoriales [online]. 2014, vol.15. ISSN 1853-4392.

Northwestern Argentina (NOA) is the territory where poverty reaches the most critical conditions and quality of life has the lowest standards. The agglomerate Gran San Miguel de Tucumán (GSMT) is the main city in the region. It concentrate significant levels of privation but not the most unfavorable situation, showing processes of socio-spatial fragmentation and growing inequalities among its habitants. The objective is to characterize and analyze the living conditions of the agglomerate GSMT in the early twenty-first century. Using the syntheticalrating of urban living conditions (combiningthe material privation rating of households with the rating of urban life quality) recognizing variables that affect the territory and generate the best and worst case scenarios in socio-spatial situations of the agglomerate, identifying their main characteristics.

Keywords : Poverty; Urban life`s quality; Socio-spatial fragmentation.

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