Within the framework of a study on what I call triad “urban renewal, gentrification and securitization”, analyze production cosmopolitan, ascetic apparently safe aesthetic that governments planners have tried to establish in Mexico City’s central Alameda its surroundings. first look at urbanistic strategies –following theory defensible spaces Oscar Newman (1972)– challenge socalled architecture...

Urban areas can be conceptualized as large and ever-changing playgrounds in which many diverse agents (households, businesses, developers, municipalities, etc.) are active. The interactions between the playground qualities players’ preferences not unidirectional. However, sometimes, external events may change perception of player’s eyes. recent Covid-19 pandemic its associated precautionary mea...

The present study examines holistic neighborhood change in Los Angeles County across three decades between 1980 and 2010. Using Census tract data, we conduct a latent class analysis to identify classes of for each decade according housing dynamics, age structure, racial-ethnic composition churning, socioeconomic characteristics, describe indicative gentrification. Further, assess the degree whi...

Objectives Reducing health inequalities is an explicit goal of England's health system. Our aim was to compare the performance of English local administrative areas in reducing socioeconomic inequality in emergency hospital admissions for ambulatory care sensitive chronic conditions. Methods We used local authority area as a stable proxy for health and long-term care administrative geography be...