Social class and housing environments in Mexico main metropolitan areas. An approach from occupational categories
Abstract
In the last decades there has been a growing interest to recover reflections on social classes that, by now, are dependent on the production of urban space. Within this trend, there are many contributions that analyze how social classes coalesce in the residence environments. The purpose of this paper consists in exploring the class nature of the metropolis, paying special attention to the housing environments in the main Mexican conurbations. The paper is based on an analysis of the National Survey on Households’ Revenues and Expenditures in Mexico. We consider as the independent variable that expresses social class the head of households’ occupation, and as dependent variables some indexes about housing location, about living conditions or about access to residences. The article revels a well demarcated social structuring of urban space, with households headed by managers and professionals at the top, and peasants and day laborers at the rear. It also reveals that households headed by peasants and day laborers are mostly accommodated in run down and semi-rural areas that are getting integrated in the recent urban expansion.Keywords
urban territories, social classes, urban segregation, living conditions, housing environmentsReferences
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