Social Housing and Segregation: An approach to understanding the difference between large and small cities

Abstract

This work is a critique to specialized approaches according to which urban segregation is per se less pernicious in small cities. Through semi-structured interviews and non-participant observation applied in two quarters of segregated social housing in cities of different sizes, the argument is made in favor of an approach that acknowledges that the perniciousness of segregation is not only explained by spatial factors but by aspects linked to the policy of mobility and public-private services and infrastructure in urban peripheries. The conclusion is reached that this approach will help better understand the impacts of social housing policies in cities of different sizes.