La segregación espacial desde la perspectiva de la movilidad cotidiana y la densidad de las zonas periurbanas de Cuenca en Ecuador

The mobility difficulties caused by spatial segregation expose the economic, social and environmental problems to which populations that inhabit left-behind areas face. The purpose of this study is to analyze and compare the mobility conditions of workers in peri-urban areas of Cuenca and thus determine the spatial segregation to which they are exposed. The quantitative cross-sectional methodology is based on a two-scale analysis in which population density is considered the unit of analysis. The work identifies that 35% of peri-urban households do not have bus services, a situation that is complicated given high labor dependency on the city and limited car ownership. The work shows that spatial segregation occurred mainly in the low-density areas, which have less access to employment areas.