Eduardo Marques Presents Work about Urban Segregation in Paris
Eduardo Marques, director of CEM, presents the article The Spatial Dimension of Urban Poverty at the Conference of the Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development Sociology of the International Sociology Association (ISA) in Paris, on the 1st of July.
The research was carried out jointly between Eduardo Marques, Haroldo Torres, Sandra Gomes and Maria Paula Ferreira. The study shows how space seems to be a constitutive element in poverty in metropolitan regions and emphasizes the importance of taking into account the spatial organization of cities in public policy action aimed at overcoming poverty.
The article presents evidence for this argument in the particular case of Sao Paulo, through analytic tests which use a socioeconomic typology of the neighborhoods of the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo on a detailed scale, based on indicators in the most segregated areas. Next, the probability of the young finishing the secondary school was studied, and it was discovered that this does not depend solely on socioeconomic conditions but is also related to the relationship between the type of neighborhood in which the individual lives.
