A expansão dos condomínios habitacionais em Campina Grande e sua influência no processo de reestruturação urbana: a descentralização em debate.

Abstract

Society segments change directly and indirectly the space. These socio spatial and economic practices are responsible for urban spaces organization. The city of Campina Grande, since the 1990's, had its urban dynamic changed by new segments of property speculation. Such restructuring is based mainly because of the increase of enterprises, such as horizontal and vertical condos, redefining its situation. On this context, to represent this dynamic, it was selected four condos with different socioeconomic conditions, two of them were vertical (Dona Lindu I and Vivant Club Residence) and two of them were horizontal (Alto da Serra Residencial and Alphaville Campina Grande). As results it was identified a scenario of socio spatial segregation due to the property speculation as a tendency of changes in the process of urban expansion in the city, which becomes a problem to the government to agents involved in the production of city space. Besides that, there is the presence of vertical and closed condos of high quality in central areas of the city, with the premise of personal factors and professional proximity with its environment of work and leisure. There is in the city borders the dissemination horizontal closed and of high quality condos, with the allegation of security, both for the walls, and for Its decentralized location.