Abstract

BARRETO, Miguel Á.  and  ABILDGAARD, R. Evelyn. Territorial trajectories of COVID-19 according to sociohabitational characteristics. The Gran Resistencia case (Argentina). Bitácora Urbano Territorial [online]. 2022, vol.32, n.2, pp.31-45.  Epub July 06, 2022. ISSN 0124-7913.  https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v32n2.99842.

The territorial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in cities raised several questions. Different studies highlighted that it had a different impact and that it affected more the areas with lower socioeconomic levels. In Latin American cities this was significant, associated with poverty and poor living conditions. Other factors that seemed to influence the spread of the virus were some forms of density, precariousness and residential overcrowding. Based on these questions, this work analyzed the spread of COVID-19 in the Gran Resistencia Metropolitan Area (Argentina), in relation to the population's socio-habitation situations, and with the aim of characterizing the territorial trajectories of the spread of the virus. The research is explanatory, based on a case study that set out to demonstrate and characterize the trajectory of the spread in the first months of the pandemic (March-August 2020), through spatial data analysis of people's residential location affected and the socio-housing situations of the population. The results allowed us to infer that the territorial spread of the virus is associated with precarious socio-habitation situations and that it follows a socioeconomic path from minors to higher levels of social vulnerability.

Keywords : metropolitan areas; pandemics; COVID-19; housing; quality of life.

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