Public spaces in the financial centrality of Lima: between inclusion image and quotidian inequality

Vega-Centeno P.; Dammert-Guardia M. · Contexto (2025) · DOI: 10.29105/contexto19.30-468

Resumen

The paper discusses the characteristics and effects of road intervention projects or the placement of new furniture in public spaces on financial areas under a neoliberal approach, and which adopt discourses of inclusion and sustainability. For this, public spaces are analyzed as inhabited spaces of the financial centrality of San Isidro in Lima, noting that the logic of urban order imposed by the local government not only obeys the interests of real estate investment, but also overlaps with the ability to pressure from high-income residents. Despite the redesigns of the urban space, the public space stages old social inequalities, where street vendors are the main targets of repression, who learn to negotiate their presence, -highly demanded by office workers-, knowing how to constantly circulate through the streets of the place. On the other hand, office workers, who have other social status, are tolerated, and a significant presence of public actors are demanded as guardians of order.

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú