Autoprodução por uma questão de classe: o bairro Vila Palmeira em São Luís - MA

Abstract

Self-production, a common means of obtaining a home in Brazil, is defined as the process in which the residents themselves, without the help of technicians (such as architects and engineers), manage the construction of their homes. Recurring in the Brazilian reality, this practice is commonly used by the working class and also originates popular neighborhoods, very present in Brazilian urban environments, and its understanding is of great importance for the documentation of the population's ways of living. Thus, the general objective of this work is to present the process of formation of the self-produced neighborhood Vila Palmeira, located in São Luís, capital of Maranhão, and to expose the processes of self-production of houses found in it; to this end, it reports the formation of Brazilian urban and rural spaces and presents the history of federal housing programs undertaken until the late 1970s. The technical procedures used were bibliographic research, structured and free narrative interview, and case study, with analysis of satellite images and primary data collected in interviews; data from the research “A moradia popular autoconstruída no Maranhão: Regime de Propriedade, Modos de Produção, Morfologia e Tipologia Urbana e Rural”, from the Laboratório de Análise Territorial e Estudos Socioeconômicos (LATESE/UEMA) were also used. In the text, excerpts of songs from the group Chico Science & Nação Zumbi, a band from Recife that portrayed in their songs the social and urban issues exposed here, were contextualized.