Inequalities in access to urban resources in changing peripheral neighbourhoods of Bogotá (Colombia) newly served by the Transmilenio
The amplitude of urban change and of improvements to transportation facilities and services makes suburban neighbourhoods ideal environments for studying inequalities in access to urban resources. Our analysis of data on Bogota from two censuses and one biographical survey on spatial mobility reveals that access by residents to city resources has changed in two ways. On the one hand, the least mobile population today have access to a wide range of goods and services in their own neighbourhoods, thereby indirectly benefitting from the improvements in spatial access that have attracted a variety of people who have subsequently helped transform those same neighbourhoods. On the other hand, people who need or wish to leave their neighbourhoods for work, education or entertainment purposes can do so more easily, and can draw on the resources of the entire city, hence directly benefitting from improvements in the availability of transport services and housing, as regards both their current social position and their prospects for personal and family development.