Socio-spatial self-segregation in Araçatuba urban agglomeration

• Grant number: 19/05179-5
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Effective date (Start): July 01, 2019
• Effective date (End): October 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal researcher: Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito
• Grantee: Augusto Marques da Silva
• Home Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 18/07701-8 - Socio-spatial fragmentation and Brazilian urbanization: scales, vectors, rhythms, forms and contents FragUrb, AP.TEM

Abstract

The forms of production of contemporary urban space, strongly guided by the economic interests of landowners and developers, have been materializing through the growth in the number of medium and high standard closed lots, thus diversifying and intensifying the process of socio-spatial segregation, which, in the current period, is also composed of forms of self-segregation. This research project proposes to analyze how the process of social-spatial self-segregation occurs in the urban agglomeration of Araçatuba, through an investigation about the closed residential spaces located in the municipalities of Araçatuba and Birigui, focusing on the agents that produce urban space and are responsible for the projects on the roads connecting the two cities. (AU)