Urbanización y clases sociales. La experiencia de la desigualdad en la estructuración del área metropolitana de Asunción.

Abstract

The Metropolitan Area of Asuncion (AMA) has experienced an accelerated and disorganized process of urbanization due to the establishment of a nonnative and institutional framework that facilitates the market. and deregulates territorial planning, promoting domineering social actors to impose their interests and to profit from their revenues, socializing the negative impacts that they cause. The main objective of this work is therefore to expose tile characteristics of the connection between the social structure and the urban experience of the inhabitants of the metropolitan area of Asuncion. The methodology is predominantly qualitative, since the reflections of the inhabitants of the AMA are taken up, according to their position in the Paraguayan social structure, regarding the subjective representations about the daily experience of urban residence. Additionally, official statistics of indicators related to the object of study are analyzed. The main findings confirm the contradictions that arise within the urbanization process of the AMA, in which the antagonisms that emerge in a society that aims to strengthen the urban development from the market. are revealed, demonstrating that the position of the inhabitants in the social structure has a direct impact on the possibilities of satisfying their demands as well as the usufruct of the city potentialities.