Marginal youth: mapping spatial capability exclusion in Bogota
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Although the analysis of urban poverty has advanced towards the integration of objective and subjective approaches to assessing urban development, evaluation of quality of life in cities remains tied to a commodity framework which conceptualises it as the mere dotation of urban amenities. Multidimensional indicators of quality of life attempt to overcome this sort of restriction by considering broader informational spaces to assess human advantage in cities. The Capability Approach has gone some way in addressing this as a normative and multidimensional approach, however the interpretation of spatial phenomena has been absent from its application, meaning that the role of space in the understanding of urban capability poverty has been neglected. Drawing on cross-sectional data, this paper examines a multidimensional measure of urban poverty based on capabilities of young adults in Bogota (The Capability Index) in order to identify clusters of deprivation and affluence of human advantage and determine levels of residential fragmentation based on this type of metric. The result is a spatialised index of capabilities that allow us to assess well-being from a perspective of socio-spatial differences. The findings support the importance of considering spatial patterning of capabilities in understanding poverty dynamics in cities. Spatialised capabilities may help to support urban policy design and promote greater understanding of spatial inequalities in cities.
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1572-9893