ABSTRACT
The chapter explains the urban poverty and its relationships with urban segregation and social networks. Segregation can be analyzed by measuring the levels of separation and homogeneity existing between social groups, or the concentration and predominance of these groups focusing on a specific social characteristic. The chapter focuses on the issue of urban poverty and its connections to the production of space. Poverty situations are dynamic and multi-dimensional states of deprivation, measurable through diverse attributes, which have been constructed over life trajectories and are reconstructed on a daily basis in practices of sociability and survival strategies. It presents the literature on social networks and its social ontology, as well as the academic analyses of personal networks. Even the ontology of social subjects depend on their insertion in situations and relations. The incorporation of social networks therefore allows the construction of an a posteriori structuralism. Finally, it discusses the association between the three highlighted elements; urban poverty, segregation and social networks.
