A urbanização e o papel das pequenas construtoras: o bairro de Paratibe em João Pessoa-PB

Abstract

The present work tries to study some problems of Urban Geography from the understanding of the processes that promote the changes in the neighborhood of Paratibe-JP from the small constructors and the transforming agents of the urban space and the main agents produce an urbanization that is marked by inequalities socio-spatial and with this, they bring diverse problems. Which can be found today due to growth based, almost always on profit. The production of residential complexes, closed condominiums, problems of land demarcations that are of rights, as in the case of the Quilombolas, in Paratibe, Works of state infrastructure until the construction of numerous buildings of two, three or four floors by independent constructors who usually work only in the construction industry. These construct where previously there was some vacant lot waiting for real estate speculation, or the overthrow of simple houses for the construction of a new building in this current process of valorization / maximum profit and verticalization of real estate in which the whole city of João Pessoa is altered and Brazil as a whole. Even with so many contradictions in the transformation of space, the same is the result of the realization of life, that is, the daily life of people living in the neighborhood continues, even if the interests of capital and state often comes first. The methodology used was the bibliographical survey of the main authors who discuss the urban problem that directed to the understanding of the urban space more specifically of the district of Paratibe, was also done field work with qualitative interviews with small builders and their collaborators, residents of the neighborhood , with the direction of the main school of the district, small stores of construction material, visit to works in progress, telephone calls to the landowners and subdivisions present in the neighborhood, photographs of the main objects of study. It became evident that still today that access to housing is very difficult, since the value of urban land is the main conditioning agent segregator. The land is tied to capital as a commodity and what can break this logicis the articulation and struggle of the social strata in need of decent social housing that realy belongs to the cityie services, leisure and infrastructure works are also in cluded in the neigh borhoodre searched.