Dinâmicas de produção do espaço em cidades de pequeno porte populacional: o caso de Pocinhos - PB.

Abstract

In the processes of social, economic, cultural transformations and natural phenomena, cities get changed, being built or not. In this process, modifying agents of urban space interfere with the dynamics, following their own interests and wishes. About the study of cities, the aim is to record experiences for cities with small populations defined for up to 50,000 inhabitants, the most part of Brazilian municipalities. This inaugural work seeks to analyze the dynamics and spatial organization of the city of Pocinhos PB, reflecting on the performance of urban space modeling agents. It is a spatial synthesis of the historic records, since the beginning of the village in 1815, passing by the dismemberment of Campina Grande in 1953 and arriving to the present time in 2023. Were founded three process of city growing: Pocinhos Rural, where the economic cycle of cattle and cotton is the protagonist, with the occupation of the wells margins; Pocinhos and the industry, which is focused on the processing of its agricultural product, sisal, with the city's growth driven by the allocation of companies, mainly on the city's margins; and post-sisal Pocinhos, when the city grows at the end of the sisal cycle. It includes the main interventions of urban programs aimed at building social housing, mainly in peripheral or risky areas, also pendular displacement. Of the actors identified in the text, there is the role of the state as regulator and real estate promoter, either in partnerships with landowners or offering social housing; landowners, who also play the role of owners of the means of production in agricultural cycles; The owners of the means of production, active mainly in the sisal cycle and occupying the margins of the city; real estate developers, whether from the municipality itself or from other cities; The social groups, which are organized to preserve the urban landscape and the church, a new character that acts in different ways throughout the growth of the city.