Dicotomias muradas. Antagonias contíguas: Inter-relações entre o capital e a segregação no meio urbano fragmentado: o caso da Vila Cristalina, São Luís-MA

Abstract

The main objective of this bachelor final paper is the analysis of the phenomena generated by the interventions of public and private agents in the urban territory, as well as the identification of the impacts on socio-spatial dynamics in a site in the city of São Luís-MA. In this context, the analysis of the process of fragmentation of the city and, simultaneously, the increase of the segregation process in the urban network, helped us to understand the dichotomy in the production of the city that varies between heterogeneous and homogeneous. By swinging between these two realities, the fragmented city presents spatial arrangements prone to the mixing of distinct socio-functional structures at the same time as it assists in the consolidation of dichotomous areas. In this sense, the capital is seen as the agent responsible for production and fragmentation in the urban soil, in the face of abstention from the state as producer and regulator of such processes. Finally, the actions of capital incorporated in the production of segregated spaces, and mostly fragmented in the urban environment, confirm the maintenance of the vicious cycle of reproduction of predatory space’s production models. Thus, this situation leads us to an understanding of interrelationships between capital and segregation in the fragmented urban environment.