Capital social, segregación y equipamientos colectivos

Abstract

This paper comments upon three concepts that on first inspection appear to be unrelated. Social capital, segregation, and collective facilities do, in an urban setting, determine individuals’ quality of life. As such, this paper describes the link that collective equipment has as a guarantor for the construction of social capital, which is an asset that that is seriously affected in a context that tends towards segregation.

Keywords

• collective facilities
• segregation
• social capital
• quality of life
• poverty