Chapter 9: Spatial Inequality in Mexico City

What is spatial inequality?

• Unequal distribution of wealth or resources in a geographic area, so that some places are richer than others.

• People cannot afford to buy seeds, fertilizer, and machinery

• Asthma in children, heart problems, loss of time from work due to sickness

• slums on the edge of the city

What is urbanization

• close to the city, but not in the city

• worsening economic conditions in the countryside, including rising unemployment and growing poverty.

• the movement of large number of people to cities resulting in overgrowth of urban areas

• living in houses / apartments near the center of the city

What kind of jobs do members of the middle class typically have?

• maids, dishwashers, cooks, construction workers, street vendors or bus drivers

• jobs in business, education, or government

Who would be considered the "have nots"-

• Recent migrants to the city- living in slums, shacks with no electricity and lack of running water. They also have little or no work opportunities.

• People with low-paying jobs living in a working class neighborhood closer to the city in tenements. Work long hours for little pay and travel for hours.

• Members of Mexico City's middle and upper classes. They enjoy the highest standard of living and live in nice homes and apartment buildings.

What is migration?

• poor people with little money and few possessions

• the movement of people from one place to another

• overcrowded cities

• overall level of comfort and well-being of a group or country.

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Rural decline is...

• the unequal distribution of wealth of resources in an area

• the movement of people from rural to urban areas

• overall level of comfort and well-being of a group

• worsening economic conditions in the country side