3.1.1. What Urban Image Does This Period of Prosperity Project?

As opposed to the concentrated model of developmentalism with an over-dimensioned and under-utilized housing stock, the image of a diffuse city with important suburban growth in peripheries where new developments are contrasted with an important consumption of land is opposed to the so-called gothic suburbs, desolate old suburbs, in which less favored social classes reside. This deconcentration, which characterizes this stage, coexists with the evolution of urban centers that are still degraded and aging, affected by the first processes of gentrification, that is, by an incipient transformation of the working-class neighborhoods or empty spaces in the central city into areas for residential, commercial, or service use by the middle class, all of which implies the displacement of low-income social groups.
