O desenvolvimento sócio-espacial no loteamento Ceval- Pelotas/RS

Abstract

The object of this study is the Ceval subdivision, in the city of Pelotas at RS (Rio Grande do Sul), Brazil. This urban space is a product of the urban poverty. This kind of poverty is allocated on places in the city that does not interest the capital, illegal settlements, villa, slums. In general, spaces like this are idle public or private lands at the urban territories and one of the strategies find by the poor urban people to enter at the urban place is the territorial occupation. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the sociospacial development in the Ceval subdivision since its occupation in, 2002, to the present days. The methodology chosen is the qualitative research and procedures: the observation and the semistructured interviews. The interviews are realizes with four categories residents: ancients, intermediate, news and leaders. This in turn, contributed to analyze the occurrence of sociospacial development in the Ceval subdivision. The sociospacial development is bases on autonomy (individual or collective), quality of life and social justice. This are the parameters that guide this analyze. As results from this purpose, their told that, the dwellers of Ceval subdivision had had autonomy while they fight for their homes and subdivision improvements, after that the autonomy gave rise by the selfishness. When the autonomy is impaired the quality of life and social justice, both are in the same situation. So, the analyze showed that there was a partial sociospacial development in the Ceval subdivision.