The the urban space production in Mossoró/RN, Dourados/MS and Chapecó/SC: investigation of real estate and land dynamics

• Grant number: 24/00255-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: July 01, 2024
• End date: February 28, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Everaldo Santos Melazzo
• Grantee: Erika da Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This proposal aims to investigate how the dynamics of real estate and land market have influenced the constitution and structuring of the cities of Mossoró/RN, Dourados/MS and Chapecó/SC. The analysis will focus on how these markets negotiate real estate assets in different cities and their respective prices. The data source and empirical materials used in the research rely on the collection and classification of real estate offer advertisements. This involves classified ads published in newspapers circulating in each city between the years 1995 and 2015, as well as web scraping of digital platforms for the early years of the 2020s. Through the systematization and spatialization of real estate offer data and the investigation of practiced real estate prices, the goal is to characterize these markets in different cities and observe their role in shaping the urban space production process. Examining how the urban land market behaves at different scales will also allow for establishing parallels that enable an understanding of specificities and generalities among the researched cities. This understanding will be based on their integration into the overall regional context and on unique characteristics of their socio-spatial formation and local economic dynamics.