Sol e Mar: a periferização de São Luís, um estudo de caso

Abstract

This assignment is aimed at the occupation and formation o f the district “Sol e Mar” in São Luís, relating it to the unorganized occupational process o f the urban area o f such a city. It is also analyzed the agrarian situation in Maranhão from the nineties by establishing relations among the agrarian situation, the rural exodus and the urban growth along with the establishment o f an ample peripherical process o f habitation out o f tune with an organized administrative public power. It is also tackled the land possession conflicts, the both govemment and offciaJs position on the occupational process as weil as the living condutions o f the fírst residente, the social and political organization, the political interests plus the attitude o f political and communítaiy leaders.