Identifying urban resources to read socio-spatial inequalities. Introduction

In recent years, academic research has renewed our understanding of the social processes, such as increased inequality, brought along by the intense urbanisation of societies both in the North and the South. This literature qualifies and characterizes the resources at stake in these processes: housing and associated services, employment, education, healthcare, intra-urban transport, mobility or on the contrary, immobility. These resources can be understood as urban resources – that is, not j...