A reestruturação socioespacial de Soledade no início do século XXI e sua influência no desenvolvimento do Agreste Paraibano.

Abstract

The intensification of the urbanization process has been a major feature of the towns in the beginning of the century, especially in medium and small spaces that began to exert a pull increasingly intensive entrepreneurs agents. This fact has become present in the spatial reality of cities in Paraíba, among which we highlight the city of Soledade due to its strategic location and the role it has played in the local context from the provision of health and public services evidenced in recent decades past to exercise a new centrality to the context of the Paraiba´s Agreste (Wild). Given this frame of reference seeks to analyze the Soledade urban restructuring process noting key trends and challenges. For this, we use the methodological framework the fundamentals of qualitative research developed from the interviews. The results pointed to the assumptions that have contributed to expansion and decentralization of spaces in the city of Soledade, as well as the factors that have kept contribution in its development.