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INDUSTRIALIZACIÓN, DESARROLLO Y CIUDAD: TRANSFORMACIONES SOCIO-DEMOGRÁFICAS Y ESPACIALES EN LA GEOGRAFÍA SOCIAL DEL GRAN CONCEPCIÓN (1950-2010)

2012; University of Chile; Volume: 27; Issue: 75 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4067/s0718-83582012000200002

0718-8358

Enrique Aliste, Miguel Contreras Alonso, Valeria Sandoval Manríquez,

Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis

There have been important transformations regarding the sociodemographic and urban structure in Greater Concepcion over the last sixty years; these changes have been related to the import-substitution industrialization and the consequent integration of the national economy within the globalized market. This paper analyzes these transformations by using socio-educational, age and employment in industry and services indicators so as to verify if the spatial behavior was linked to these processes, putting them in perspective against the notion of progress and development. The results show an early concentration of employment in industry in the peri-urban area. The socio-educational structure retained high income groups in the downtown area of Concepcion, but it has recently showed a more peripheral localization, in line with metropolization mechanisms and the liberalization of the land market. This article presents two moments of the city: one belonging to the idea of progress and the other is the notion of development; both concepts are discussed by taking the social geography of the city as a basis.