Abstract

COREAS-BONILLA, Carlos Vinicio. Critical analysis of the production of the social division of residential space of the case of the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, El Salvador, between 1950 and 1979. A geographical interpretation. Rev. Geog. Amer. Central [online]. 2019, n.63, pp.1-31. ISSN 2215-2563.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/rgac.63-2.1.

The production of socio-spatial inequality in the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, El Salvador, between 1950 and 1979, is analyzed from the critique and use of the notion of social division of residential space elaborated by Emilio Duhau, strengthening this concept from theoretical tools of radical geography and sociological class analysis, giving rise to the proposed theoretical-conceptual framework. This formulation discusses with a selection of studies dealing with the urbanization process, the housing problem or housing policies in the Salvadoran metropolis that provide information on the process of housing occupancy of various social classes inside, also incorporating other studies that provide the economic, political and social context of the period analyzed. The study demonstrates the effects of the capitalist mode of production on the social division of residential space, emphasizing the role of housing policies and the processes of land occupation of the popular classes.

Keywords : Social division of residential space; production of space; inequality; housing; social classes.

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