Ocupação e uso do solo urbano: análise sobre o bairro Cristo Rei, Cajazeiras/PB.

Abstract

The expansion of Brazilian cities occurred in an intense manner since the 1960s with the growing of industrialization process allied to the beginning of the new forms of production in the field. That aspect accelerated the urbanization process and rural exodus, and it obtained major changes in urban area. In this context, the research aims to analyze the occupation process and the use of urban land in the neighborhood of Cristo Rei located in Cajazeiras/PB. For this purpose, we search to develop an analysis about the current social and spatial dynamic and the territorial expansion process in referred neighborhood. In general we search to understand the intra-urban transformation processes of Cajazeiras in its entirety, mainly in our territorial cutting for analysis, the neighborhood of Cristo Rei. In addition, we aim to identify who are the main involved agents in urban processes in screen. The interest about the referred theme is from the in loco observations and the fact that, in the last years, the neighborhood of Cristo Rei suffered a significant expansion as of implementation of blends and the construction of new housing occurred since 2009 until nowadays. The methodological procedure was the bibliographical research and the primary data collection from the questionnaires and secondary data obtained in official institutions like the IBGE, in addition to preparation of mapping materials and photographic records related to the neighborhood of Cristo Rei, our object of study. Also, we obtained official documents related to the municipal, state and federal urban laws, besides the collected documents about the neighborhood during the research. We also conducted the exploratory field research through the objective and discursive questionnaires to the people from the neighborhood with the intention of obtaining a clarification about the socio and spatial processes that conditioned the current expansion of the neighborhood. The results indicate that the implementation of Minha Casa, Minha Vida Program (PMCMV) from Federal Government is among the main factors that caused the territorial expansion of neighborhood of Cristo Rei. Thus, we concluded that, despite the neighborhood expansion, it did not mean an appropriate and right urban development for the majority of the neighborhood population.