Tensão entre representação do espaço e práticas urbanas: um estudo sobre novos arranjos de uso e ocupação do espaço social em Pelotas.

Abstract

This dissertation has the general objective is approached the impact of real estate, gated communities horizontal batch, on ways of perception and sociability of social groups located in regions São Gonçalo e Laranjal the city of Pelotas. Specifically seek understand how political processes that engender decisions about city planning, simultaneously assist the economic and social agents producing a representation of space, as a strategy of action in the real estate market. For it examines the tension between these strategies and practices for use and occupation of urban residents. The research problem is examine whether the concept of habitat, which is represented in the projects of the use and occupation of urban space for building of condominiums, intended for higher classes, leads to socio-spatial segregation. The methodology is based on qualitative, chose to interview technique with script semistructured, and analysis of documentary sources to know the representation of space through the idea of habitat conceived by the economic agent and the practice of residents, perceived and lived during the dwell mode. From the analysis of the interviews with real estate agents it was possible to capture that ideal dwelling conceived by the agents involved (venturers and real estate brokers) reflects the "difference in the status of hierarchical". In this sense the conception of from those habitat areas strengthens the power relations in society, therefore leads to spatial segregation, in other words, the unequal appropriation of urban space. On the other hand, through the interviews with residents of allotments Umuharama, São Conrado e Vila Bela, located around of the new ventures of horizontal condominiums of batches, Interpreted the perception mode of living that is distinct of the habitat and permanence forms of sociability guided in the bonds of reciprocity and trust, despite them already witnessing the changes in the urban space mobility and resulting population of these ventures.