In this article I analyse the relationship between rurality and middle classes. Few recent studies on middle classes have examined the role of rurality within middle class expansion processes at the global scale. I conducted ...

This article examines how symbolic representations of social-spatial differences help to maintain social stratification within Santiago de Chile. Several focus group discussions illuminated the approaches and resources ...

In this paper we analyze the transformative living conditions for middle classes in the City of Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires in relation to the house and the body during these first two months of mandatory isolation. ...

Informality is growing in a context of increasing inequity, and in many places becoming the norm. However, despite decades of studies and interventions, 'recognising informality' is still a key issue. This paper provides ...

School choice parental practices have been extensively researched worldwide.Recently, an emergent line of studies has focused on the case of mostly white middle-class parents, who, in contrast to the dominant trend identifed ...

We investigate middle-class poverty politics in Seattle and Buenos Aires in a period of recovery from deep neoliberal economic crisis. Reading these cases in relation to one another allows us to examine what sorts of class ...

Este estudio de Anahi Ballent sobre las políticas de vivienda, el Estado y la ciudad de Buenos Aires durante el primer peronismo provoca una pregunta: ¿Qué puede tener que ver la “revolución peronista” con los chalés ...

Contemporary cities have been permeated by the emergence of new commercial and service concentration areas and the density of flows towards these zones, which characterized the emergence of new expressions of centralities. ...

After nearly 80 years since the construction of its core, represented today by the city's central area, Londrina, located in the state of Parana, has the appearance of a new city but its features and trends of planning ...