O processo de (des)apropriação das Praças da Bandeira e Clementino Procópio em Campina Grande - PB (1942-2010).

Abstract

The present work has the main objective to analyze the process of appropriation and expropriation of the squares: "Praça da Bandeira" e "Clementino Procópio", both located in Campina Grande downtown, on the state of Paraíba. In this sense, the writing is structured in three parts. In the first one, chapter II, the theoretical and methodological references that subsidize the analysis of the appropriation and expropriation processes of the squares: the following conceptual categories were defined: public free spaces, urban morphology, appropriation processes and expropriation of public spaces. In the second part, chapter III, the historical aspects and the evolution of the urban shape of "Praça da Bandeira" and "Praça Clementino Procópio", and on the second part it is present analysis configuration of the squares surroundings. Finally, in the third part, chapter IV presents and analyzes the results of the application of systematic observation, both the physical-spatial and natural aspects of those urban spaces, as well as the behavioral aspects of the users, that is, the ways of apropriation according to the profile of its users. Therefore, the present work is a socio-spatial diagnosis, whose topic will allow the process investigation of appropriation and expropriation by the residents of "Campina Grande" for the squares "Praça da Bandeira" and "Praça Clementino Procópio", motivated by a diversity of factors that will be detailed in the course of this writing.