Abstract

In Latin America, the transition from a compact city to a dispersed one has not only involved territorial and functional changes in large cities, but it has also contributed to modify the scale of social segregation, a process where the changes of residence of the urban population has played a crucial role. In Chile, the national capital has not been an exception to this dynamic, to the extent that the ongoing residential changes have altered the residential segregation, both in their spatial scale and the forms it takes. The results of this study show a marked concentration of socio-economic groups of higher status in certain administrative entities of the city that until recently were not valued as places of permanent residence by these categories of the population. This has increased segregation at different scales, and has contributed to increase the complexity of the general model of residential segregation in the city.