Socioespatial segregation in the cities: evidence and characteristics from the scientific Literature

The process of socioespatial segregation is present in the urban context of big cities, with reasoning in the divergence of social classes and urban dynamics, old and recent. Several studies have incorporated justifications and assumptions of the motivations of this segregation. This study aimed to identify the scientific production about the spatial segregation in cities in order to analyze the main motivations and evidence of the socioespatial segregation. In this way, it developed an integrative review of literature in the databases of CAPES and Ebsco Host (Urban Studies Abstracts, Academic Search Elite, Academic Source and GreenFILE). The sample of this review consisted of nine articles published between 1970 and July of 2018. After analysis of these articles, the most relevant results indicated that the process of socioespatial segregation is mainly linked to the disorderly process of urban expansion, which gives the emergence of urbanized units dispersed around disputes for better zone. It was concluded that the socioespatial segregation brings numerous consequences for the urban space and to the lives of citizens, because the upper social classes have easier access to the most privileged locations, while the lower classes of society have such access compromised.