Abstract

Chile has been one of the countries in the world where neoliberalism has been applied most orthodoxically. Since 1975 a series of reforms were established in various fields which set the market as the main allocator of resources. With the restoration of democracy, the model was improved and deepened through various mechanisms, global openness being the most important one. This international insertion of the country through a highly globalized national economy has impacted the capital city and its inhabitants, undergoing processes of urban restructuring and forming a metropolitan labour market and segmented social geography, especially for the younger and poorer segments of the population. This has generated mechanisms of exclusion in the most important areas of urban sociability, which need to be deactivated by public policies.