Abstract

LOPEZ SANTILLAN, Ricardo. Pretty, clean and safe stuff: Use and appropriation of urban space of a Mexico City's middle-class segment. Alteridades [online]. 2007, vol.17, n.34, pp.9-25. ISSN 2448-850X.

As of the link between the change of the economic model and the transformation of urban space in Mexico City, this work approaches some socio-cultural changes among middle-class professionals at a level of practices, particularly those referred to the forms of use and the appropriation of this urban space concerning housing and places related to consumption, leisure and recreation.

Keywords : middle class; Mexico City; professionals; urban space; housing; leisure; consumption.