Formação e dinâmica socioespacial do Conjunto Jardim Vitória, Campina Grande - PB.

Abstract

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.