SILVA, I. E. E.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5155635365302649; SILVA, Irislaldo Erik Estevam da.
Résumé:
To know and understand the city socio-spatial dynamic has always been important. It is from this dynamic that
we can understand how it manifests the several faces of the real estate speculation, which selects and segregates
the residents in many parts of the urbe. Campina Grande city does not escape this rule and presents an important
horizontal increasing of its urban area and the arising of neighborhoods increasingly apart from downtown. It is
from such dynamism that I bring as a general aim the analysis of the arising and the socio-spatial dynamic of
“Macaiba Invasion”, currently called Jardim Vitoria, located at Velame neighborhood. Beyond these questions
related to the arising of the study area, and as specific aims, this work addresses the community struggles to the
conquest and the arrival of infrastructure improvements, the offer of urban services to the locality, as well as the
resident’s view related to these services nowadays. The methodology used in order to achieve the objectives was
the survey of a bibliographical material about themes such as: space, urban scenery, urban peripherization and
segregation, invasion and occupation, besides some readings related to laws that configure the city statute and
the delimitation of Special Zones of Social Interests (SZSI). Beyond the bibliographical material, the
methodology was linked to the analysis of satellite images of the study area and a field research (interviews and
application of questionnaires) with the residents of the neighborhood. As considerations, after all the survey
information and data analysis obtained in the research, it is observed that all the process since its arising till the
arrival of infrastructure improvement and also urban services equipments occurred through the own
community’s conquests and struggles and the organization of residents’ association which was notably a
conquest to Jardim Vitoria. Its recognition as a SZSI in 2006, also contributed for that the public agencies gave
more attention to the communities and then the improvement works could be slowly implanted. Its example is
just one among several communities existing in Campina Grande. To know and study them is important and
necessary to geographers, historians, architects and urbanists.