From Massive to Neighborhood. Is the Identity an Articulating Category Between Daily Mobility and Urban Transportation? De lo masivo a lo barrial. ¿Es la identidad una categoría articuladora entre la movilidad cotidiana y el transporte urbano?

Abstract

The mass transit means comprise a trend that has gained strength in the last two decades in Latin America (Vásquez, et. al., 2019; Pardo, 2009) this guideline implies constant disarticulations in the territory and daily mobility, which leads to reconfigurations in the experiences of whom live and transit through the urban spatial scales. This paper aims to explore the empirical research regarding mass transit implementations and its implications in neighborhood identity; through a review of three key categories: Urban/neighborhood identity from a cultural and environmental psychology perspective (Valladares, 2021; Portal, 2003; Delgado, 1999), daily mobility (Dureau, et. al., 2021; Miralles, 2013) and mass transportation (Aguilar, et. al., 2021; Velázquez, 2015). For this approach, the documentary and bibliographic research method was used in addition to content analysis of the resources that were found. Among the most relevant findings it stands out that the relationship between daily mobility, neighborhood identity and mass transit, has been studied in literature, nevertheless, not in an articulated manner, thus the importance of noting the interrelation among these three aspects; the main contribution derived from this exploration is the intertwining by means of three fundamental análisis scales, in the urban framework, on one side the individual: identity; a microsocial scale: the neighborhood; and the massive transit that responds to a global trend, in the Latin-American context, which generally are the outcome of policies originated from the sustainability discourse, and neoliberal capitalism.