Screening suburbia. Relaciones sociales, comportamientos y construcción de la identidad en las urbanizaciones residenciales. Una etnografía del espacio suburbano en la provincia de Tarragona

Identifier:  TDX:2350

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX2350

Authors:  Espallargas Castro, Jose Luis

Abstract:
Urban sprawl implications range from environmental, economic, urban and architectural issues but also some social ones. The social point of view has been studied by Anthropologists as a matter of urban poverty and marginalization, they have been focused lowest class people who used to live at the outskirts of the city, while suburban healthy upper and middle class where forgotten by academician. My work is based on this new outlook on social urban sprawl, focusing on its evolution at western world and particularly studying the city of Tarragona (Spain) and its suburbia. In order to develop this investigation properly, I followed an ethnography system through some tools such as interviews and observation Among other considerations, theoretical framework analysis concludes that healthy suburban areas have mainly became 'no places'(nota al pie) where the private thing and isolated social contacts prevail, far from how it happens at traditional city centers. Here I present an ethnography research on the field, based on some interviews with informants, and some documental research which verifies that the problem follows the same pattern both in Spain and the rest of developed word. Generally speaking we observe more densely populated city suburban areas which becomes a source of communiting