Resilience can have desirable and undesirable consequences. Thus, resilience should not be viewed as a normative desirable goal, but as a descriptor of complex systems dynamics. From this perspective, we apply resilience thinking concepts to assess the dynamics of inequality, spatial segregation, and sustainability in Chile’s capital city of Santiago. Chile’s economy boosted since democracy was...

The literature of these classical isoperimetric inequalities is very extensive (comprehensive presentations may be found in Blaschke [l] and Bonnesen [l](1)). In most instances, only convex curves and convex surfaces are considered, or else it is assumed that the curves and surfaces involved are sufficiently regular to permit the use of the classical formulas for the quantities a(C), 1(C), A(S)...

This paper critiques the notion that unfettered inequality is an inevitable consequence of contemporary capitalism, and provides an alternative, new framework for analyzing changes in income and wealth distribution. By thinking of these distributions as the result of changing centrifugal and centripetal economic and political forces, we can identify changes in our economic and social structure ...