Territories and inclusion in the peripheries of Lima (Peru): An exploratory approach based on data about water supply and sewage disposal

In the rapidly changing peripheries of the Lima metropolitan area, in Peru, we analyzed the mechanisms of inclusion, differentiation and exclusion in terms of access to water supply and sewage disposal. Our approach is based on a diversified corpus of data from statistics and fieldwork and explores the following hypotheses. Inequality in terms of access is linked to the lapse of time between urban expansion and the installation of services. They are tied to the differentiated possibilities available to residents to obtain these services, according to their socioeconomic condition. They are due to the fact that the State and the private actors intervene in these still rural spaces differently than in urban areas. These last processes imply the creation and the reshaping of territories.