Estudo sobre a relação campo-cidade: o caso do Município de Olivedos - PB.

Abstract

This article aims to assess the relation between city and field in Olivedos/PB. This place presents a small sized city and we characterize this arrangement as an area surrounded by processes and functions involving actions that need to be assessed and that their relations with the field echoes in the daily life of the city. The quantitative data of IBGE (2010) allows us to realize that most of population lives at the city, however their lifestyle is not the one related with this urban space, but the habits and the hegemonic activities refer to the field, and its rural lifestyle. To understand this relation and the influence the field exerts on the city is of utmost importance. It was noticed this relation in a practical way by using bibliographic research and interviews, besides the assessment of the city landscape. We conclude in the end of the article that the city presents a small population and it mainly lives according to field lifestyle, and its influence is notorious from its historical formation to its current configuration, influencing economic, social and cultural aspects.