SAN JOSE, A CITY IN PERPETUAL TRANSFORMATION. REFLECTIONS ON SPACE

This article aims to introduce questions and proposals to approach the study of the transformations, contradictions and continuities present in the dynamics, relationships, meanings and everyday beliefs about San Jose city. We use space as our basic analytical unit, where we approach questions about...

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Authors: Sánchez Lovell, Adriana; Paniagua Arguedas, Laura; Brenes Montoya, Mónica
Format: Article
Status:Published version
Publication date:2013
Country:Costa Rica
Institution:UCR
Repository:Portal de Revistas UCR
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/8405
Online Access:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/sociales/article/view/8405
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:ciudad
costa rica
san josé
social transformation
sociología urbana
town
transformaciones sociales
urban areas
urban sociology
zonas urbanas
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Summary:This article aims to introduce questions and proposals to approach the study of the transformations, contradictions and continuities present in the dynamics, relationships, meanings and everyday beliefs about San Jose city. We use space as our basic analytical unit, where we approach questions about changes in the social, relational, productive and labor sphere that arose in the last decades in the Costa Rican capital, and happen to gerate differentiated forms of appropriation and use of space that is increasingly characterized by segregation and discrimination.