This work explores the extent to which urban integration is related to a better quality of life in the metropolitan areas of Santiago, Valparaiso and Concepcion. This challenge has not been addressed so far as a result of ...

Similar to many concepts in Social Sciences, the concept of sociospatial fragmentation has been often misused, at times leading to significant confusion. In view of that, this article aims to critically review this concept ...

The Henri Lefebvre's theory of the production of space is nowadays one of the main debated contributions in contemporary social theory when the subject is the spatiality of social life. This paper has place in this discussion. ...

Existing green areas in cities generate multiple benefits on the quality of life of their inhabitants that, from a socio-ecological perspective, can be interpreted in terms of urban ecosystem services. The provision of ...

Environmental quality is a fundamental issue in order to characterize quality of life in the cities. The human activities interfere in environmental processes, causing impacts that must be minimized. It is the task of ...