Resumen

FERRETTI RAMOS, Mariano  y  ARREOLA CALLEROS, Mariano. From urban fabric to the social fabric: analysis of morphological and functional properties. Nova scientia [online]. 2013, vol.5, n.9, pp.98-126. ISSN 2007-0705.

There is now a significant amount of logged areas in the city of Leon, intended for social housing in which you can verify the absence of spaces that enable better and more efficient relationship community not only within themselves but in their points of contact with the surrounding environment. Moreover, the excessive growth of urban sprawl and a lack of planning and controlmodels of growth have led to a systematic fragmentation of public space in the city. This break in the physical fabric, also implies a deterioration in the social fabric if we understand that support and nurture the relationships that give meaning to community life in cities, are living spaces, the crossing of different realities that make a community to express their character as such. They are places support our everyday life and other properties that ensure vital as security, belonging and identity. The impact that this problem has on the quality of life of its inhabitants is a reality that we need to know from the study of their symptoms and to interpret, the possible solutions. Discuss the concept of "tissue" is, in itself, a stance in addressing the problems faced by many Latin American cities. Is the scale necessary to consider when trying to perform an analysis on more general aspects such as spatial segregation, physical fragmentation, urban sprawl or dispersion. The urban fabric, the physical fabric of the product accumulation over time of social realities between groups and of them with the territory is mostly grain definition necessary to understand the other major realities but also the fingerprint of greater or lower level of health of the social fabric that holds the urban life.

Palabras llave : urban fabric; social fabric; gated communities; community space; urban fragmentation.