São Luís moderna e contraditória: resistência e permanência na Ilhinha e Ponta d’Areia

Abstract

To do an urban space analysis is unarguable that takes into account all the inherent dynamism in your process of transformation starting from the conflict of interests of the most diverse agents, inserted in one logic that in your corollary is responsible to exclude the majority, due the fact that the present mode of production have like major characteristic the amplification and the reproduction of the socioeconomics dissimilarities, creating a different geography development in global scale, that in your concreteness materialize spatially the division of classes reflected through the expression of the urban mosaic. To the fruition of the search purposes, was important the revision of the bibliography that discuss the production of the space, the capitalist city and his complexities related to the question of the modernization and the formation of segregated spaces, beyond that stage was realized technics survey on SINFRA, SINDUSCON e IBGE, to after follow the fieldwork, where was realized interviews and photographs registers. In this way, the present study has the finality to analyses the contradictions materialized in the capital of Maranhão, with a specific purpose that comprehends the districts of Ponta d’Areia (Península) and Ilhinha, that, nowadays, is visible an intense process of production and valorization of the space, as reveals the contradictions inherited to the present dynamism. In that way, will be analyzed particular aspects of the due localities setting up the temporal cutting of the 1970 until 2017. Can be concluded, that the State mediate for the capital thorough of your own actions favoring the ampliation and hegemony of the real state capital on Ponta d’Areia and in counterpart deeps the socio-spatial inequality related to Ilhinha, where is a area that suffers over of the conformation process with absence and precariousness of the several services and urban equipment.