Morar invisibilizado: os territórios populares de Campina Grande, PB.

Abstract

Brazilian cities, during their formation, are accompanied by processes of socio-spatial segregation, as a consequence of the country's socioeconomic inequality. These processes deprive a large portion of the population of access to housing. In addition to the difficulties of habitability on the part of the population, there is still a difficulty in accessing information about these settlements by the population, there is still difficulty in accessing information about these settlements by researchers, both in terms of identifying territories existing popular ones, in relation to their characterizations. the lack of knowledge about these precarious conditions makes adequate interventions difficult for each popular territory. The city of Campina Grande has some surveys related to this precariousness, however it is observed that several communities remain unidentified. The present work aims to identify and characterize the popular territories made invisible by preexisting surveys, taking the city of Campina Grande as an area. With regard to the nature of the research, it is applied, quali-quantitative and exploratory. The methodology developed has its origins in the research "Informal Urban Centers in Brazil", carried out by the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) and in the Collective Cartographies, developed by the Interdisciplinary group. The strategy of superimposing relative data and precarious qualifications was used, with the main indication for identifying popular territories being the addresses of members of the Mothers' Clubs in the city. In sequence, recommendations are given for the characterization from a collective cartography, carried out together with the neighborhood association in question. The main contribution of the work was the testing of a methodology that calls into question the challenge of constructing an identification and characterization of popular territories based on the collaboration of the communities residing in these territories. It also contributes to the demonstration of the methodology, identifying five likely areas of popular territories and presenting the characterization of a case study, in Tambor, built together with Clube de Mães Anita Cabral.