Resumen

FERNANDEZ-SILVA, Perla Yannelli  y  RAMIREZ-VELAZQUEZ, Blanca Rebeca. Socially vulnerable households in the southern edge of the Metropolitan Zone of Mexico City. Econ. soc. territ [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.52, pp.761-785. ISSN 2448-6183.

The latest studies about the relationship between city and countryside, regard the breakdown of the dichotomy among rural and urban. We present the results of a quantitative analysis in localities of the southern edge of the Metropolitan Zone of Mexico City. It identified social vulnerable households in transitional spaces between urban and rural, this vulnerability are constituted by socioterritorial characteristics which condition the forms of social and territorial reproduction of the groups in localities from Milpa Alta, Tlalpan and Tláhuac.

Palabras llave : territory; rural-urban relationship; social vulnerability; households.