Social Segregation in Urban Area: The Results of a Project in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria

Several studies have highlighted the importance of social and institutional mechanisms on a urban level that heavily influence the processes of social and economics integration and intensify the phenomenon of spatial segregation. The dynamics of metropolitan development and new factors of differentiation on a social and spatial-temporal level rough out inequalities connected to the management of the complexity of the urban life from the point of view of the health, the quality of life and the active social participation. We want to pay attention to the segregation processes both on a theoretical level and through some data based on the results of a research sponsored by the “Regione Calabria” to one of its institutions in House. The focus is on the phenomenon of spatial segregation in Reggio Calabria, that is the result of discrimination processes on a large scale, and especially, on the perception of the urban quality of self-declared segregated people that promote urban contests always more socially divided with consequent urban transformations that nowadays are causes and consequences of radical changes in the organization of daily life with serious consequences on the quality of life.