Urban fragmentation and segregation in the Central District, Honduras

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  • Marysabel Zelaya Ochoa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5377/pdac.v11i0.2269

Keywords:

urban segregation, fragmentation, gated community, public space, and social exclusion

Abstract

In the Central District until the seventies decade the urban fragmentation was not so evident, Central Park was considered the center, constituted the point of origin and identity and orientation given to the city, was the area of greatest urban hierarchy, home of political, economic, religious and social. However, with the changes made since the eighties, the situation changes, the city cease to represents a continuous space to make way for a city characterized by fragmentation and urban segregation.

Revista Población y Desarrollo: Argonautas y Caminantes, Vol. 11, 2015: 85-96

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Author Biography

Marysabel Zelaya Ochoa

Phd. Ciencias Sociales con Orientación en Gestión del Desarrollo.Coordinadora de la Maestría en Demografía y Desarrollo de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de Honduras

Published

2015-12-08

How to Cite

Zelaya Ochoa, M. (2015). Urban fragmentation and segregation in the Central District, Honduras. Población Y Desarrollo - Argonautas Y Caminantes, 11, 85–96. https://doi.org/10.5377/pdac.v11i0.2269

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