ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a review of the process of socio-urban fragmentation that has been taking place in the city of Montevideo and its metropolitan area and concentrates specifically on analysis of three areas, barrios, in the city. The first section of this chapter presents a brief overview of urban housing policies and discusses the principal features of the configuration and urban growth of Greater Montevideo and the process of socio-urban fragmentation, placing special emphasis on the process by which the irregular settlements were formed and consolidated. The second section presents data about the three survey settlements and the main findings. They differ from the settlements that formed from 1985 onwards which generally consist of those people who lived in central Montevideo but were displaced from the more consolidated areas of the city. The major socio-urban study shows that the three barrios are located in areas with good connectivity to the city.
