Resumen

EJEA MENDOZA, Guillermo. Poverty and Socio-territorial Inequality in Mexico City: The Structural Problem and the Limits of Social Policy. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2014, vol.29, n.83, pp.87-127. ISSN 2007-8358.

The author presents a panorama of the current state of poverty and social inequality in Mexico City and its relationship to certain economic and territorial elements of the city, as well as a brief retrospective of the mid-twentieth century, to argue that the prevailing economic pattern only deepened pre-existing urban heterogeneities. He maintains that between 1997 and 2012, social policy design was based on the supposition that the structural conditions of social equality would have to wait for a change in the model, or that they would be the mechanical result of its successful entry into global markets. He concludes that transformation strategies for well-being can begin to be implemented now.

Palabras llave : socio-territorial inequality; urban heterogeneity; social policy; spatial equality; progressive urban policies.