Browsing by Author "Link F."

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    Symbolic domination in the neoliberal city: space, class, and residential stigma
    (Routledge, 2021) Otero G.; Méndez M.L.; Link F.
    © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This study examines how perceptions of residential reputation and stigma vary according to differences in social class and spatial structures. The focus of our inquiry is the city of Santiago, Chile–a highly segregated city in Latin America. We suggest that residential stigma is the focus of a larger assemblage of material and non-material marginalization; it is a point of convergence of multiple forms of social stratification. We combine a representative survey of 600 residents with geo-referenced census data, building composite measures to represent concrete class and spatial structures using clustering techniques. Results reveal that living in more affluent segregated areas is associated with a better perceived residential reputation, whereas perceived residential stigma is greater in geographical areas with a high concentration of poverty, land devaluation, population density, and overcrowding, regardless of whether these areas present high levels of criminality. Interestingly, when we include social class along with the spatial structure, the former loses significance as a predictor of both perceived residential reputation and stigma. The spatial structure therefore goes some way toward mediating the relationship between class and perceived residential reputation. This suggests the need for public policies designed to reduce the current symbolic domination that exists in Santiago.
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    The damages of stigma, the benefits of prestige: Examining the consequences of perceived residential reputations on neighbourhood attachment
    (Wiley, 2023) Otero G.; Ramond Q.; Mendez M.L.; Carranza R.; Link F.; Ruiz-Tagle J.
    © Urban Studies Journal Limited 2023.This study examines how perceived residential reputations – that is, how people think non-residents assess the reputation of their neighbourhood – affect neighbourhood attachment, including residents’ sense of belonging, local civic membership, social relationships and compliance with social rules and norms in the neighbourhood. We focus on Santiago, the capital city of Chile: a highly segregated context. We use data from the Chilean Longitudinal Social Survey (ELSOC, 2016–2019) and information on neighbourhood characteristics. Results show that perceived residential reputations affect neighbourhood attachment, even after adjusting for time-invariant individual heterogeneity and lagged dependent variables. Specifically, perceived stigma reduces residents’ neighbourhood identification, physical rootedness, trust and sociability with neighbours, while positive perceived reputations improve these components of neighbourhood attachment, although to a lesser extent. However, perceived residential reputations do not affect the formation of strong ties between neighbours or local participation, suggesting that residential reputations mainly influence affective components of neighbourhood attachment. We conclude that perceived residential reputations reinforce the influence of individual characteristics and objective neighbourhood conditions in producing diverging patterns of neighbourhood attachment, with broader implications for social inequality in the city.
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    Urban vitality and neighborhood sociability: complexities of a latin american metropolisVitalidad urbana y sociabilidad barrial: complejidades de una metrópolis latinoamericana
    (Wiley, 2022) Link F.; Senoret A.; Fuentes L.; Rodriguez S.; CEDEUS (Chile)
    © 2022, Ministerio de Fomento. All rights reserved.Some authors argue that urban vitality encourages sociability among inhabitants. However, this literature concentrates its analysis on the attributes of the built environment, such as density or the diversity of land uses, without considering effective practices or the influence of sociodemograph-ic factors on neighborhood sociability. This article seeks to deepen this relationship, analyzing indicators identified by the literature as necessary conditions for urban vitality, contrasting them with neighborhood sociability variables such as neighborhood use, public familiarity, network neighborli-ness and sociability among neighbors, and with sociodemographic indicators for the Metropolitan Area of Santiago, Chile. In addition to finding an important influence of sociodemographic factors, a more complex relationship between urban vitality and neighborhood sociability is identified, revealing the need to rethink the concept for the reality of Latin American metropolises.
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    Vertical neighborhoods in santiago de Chile: New forms of neighborhood sociability and 'public familiarity'.Barrios verticales en Santiago de Chile: nuevas formas de sociabilidad vecinal y familiaridad pública
    (Wiley, 2023) Link F.; Senoret A.; Matus C.; CEDEUS (Chile)
    © 2023 Universidad de Chile. All rights reserved.In the last two decades Santiago de Chile has experienced an important verticalization process, promoted by financialization in a context of urban neoliberalism, which has radically transformed the built environment in central areas, the sociodemographic composition, as well as the social practices and interactions of its inhabitants. Although the literature recognizes a low local sociability in neighborhoods of intensive densification by high-rise buildings, this paper proposes to consider the importance of daily encounters in the public space and the emergence of eventual links in everyday practices, thus expanding the notion of local sociability. Three vertical neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile, were analyzed through secondary data about their urban environment, as well as primary data collected through surveys, focus groups, and network interviews. The results indicate that, although densification by high-rise construction inhibits social interaction at a building level and deteriorates the formation of strong ties at a neighborhood level, in some cases, the daily use of public space and local commerce, as well as neighborhood organization, favor the emergence of public familiarity bonds, transforming the traditional idea of neighborhood community. Based on these results, we seek to discuss the social impacts of the processes of densification by verticalization, in relation to daily practices in the formation of communities.