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When he woke up, the crisis was still there. Consequences of the economic crisis in the city of Madrid and effects on territorial vulnerability

Abstract:

The concept of “urban vulnerability” has emerged in recent years within the fields of study of various disciplines. In relation to socioeconomic studies, the recent crisis has generated a series of works on the unequal vulnerability that exists at different scales. In this context, this article asks about this question from three approaches that can be considered novel: a diachronic perspective, which shows the uneven territorial evolution from 2007 to 2015; an inquiry into the unequal “post-crisis” trajectory, which affects the consolidation of a territorial vulnerability, with deep roots, but which is consolidated during and after the crisis; and an intra-urban perspective, which serves to apply this issue in a scale not much studied but which allows one to obtain interesting contrasts between the different areas of the city. For this, a statistical analysis is applied in three stages through correlation, spatial autocorrelation and bivariate spatial autocorrelation. The results confirm the unequal trajectory in the districts of the city of Madrid and the deepening of a situation of socio-economic vulnerability for the most disadvantaged before and during the crisis.