A produção capitalista do espaço urbano e a política habitacional em Campina Grande - PB: o Complexo Aluízio Campos

Abstract

The research presented in this dissertation work starts from the approach and perspective on what is and how the urban space is produced. Here it is emphasized how this production has been carried out in Campina Grande - PB, through the relationships of the groups that make up urban society: the population stratified into classes, the state and the hegemonic agents of the production of space (the owners of the means of production, landowners / owners and real estate developers), based on the study of the development of the Aluizio Campos Complex. Thus, we identify the way in which the urban fabric of the city has been altered by the decisions of the articulation between the state (Municipal Management) and these hegemonic agents of the production of space. Through documentary research, we analyze the projects that deal with the Complex's enterprise, as well as the specific laws that were elaborated so that its realization became possible, in order to identify the real intentions behind such articulation. The research reveals that, in fact, the project aims to sell and deliver part of the urban land of Campina Grande to the private sector, even giving it the right to manage it in the manner of a public-private partnership . In addition to this analysis, this research identifies how the state's discourse on the Aluízio Campos complex is worked on in the local media, through the cataloging of journalistic articles from the period of the project's launch until the inauguration of the housing sector. Political marketing enters the scene with the aim of persuading and influencing the population of the city in accepting the complex as being beneficial to everyone, giving the justification for the right to housing provided by the housing complex that was built on the site. Finally, when we discuss the data on the socioeconomic profile and identify the origin of the families that now live in the Aluízio Campos housing complex, we bring up the discussion about the right to housing and to city, concluding that this complex is also characterized as a place of planned and imposed segregation.