Ruptures and continuities - the production of space and the process of restructuring: a look into São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiros metropolitan region

Author(s)

Juliana Nazaré Luquez Viana

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2018-12-17

Examining board members

Sandra Lencioni; Maria Beatriz Cruz Rufino; Odette Carvalho de Lima Seabra; Regina Helena Tunes

• Advisor: Sandra Lencioni

Abstract

The present work intends to analyze and discuss the production of space resulting from a restructuring process and its phases, as well as its ruptures and continuities, taking as specific situation the urban reality of São Gonçalo (RJ). It is assumed that the transformations produced by the dynamics of the spatial processes lead to discontinuities from which one can define the phases of rupture and connect the dissolved elements in each of these moments aiming the identification of the continuities, taking them as a foundation for a historical perspective of the space production. We propose an analytical periodization of the urban reality of São Gonçalo, built from the identification of the ruptures and the characterization of the continuities, revealed by the space restructuring movement. In this sense, such a synthesis has developed according to the following problematizations: (a) what ruptures characterize each phase of the space restructuring process in São Gonçalo and (b) what is its relation with the Fluminense metropolitan reality? And, considering, a historical perspective in the analysis of space production, (c) what are the hidden continuities in each moment of rupture? In São Gonçalo, the dynamics of space production could be understood in two defining moments, the urban-industrial and the metropolitan-financial, and considered in three phases of restructuring: the urbanization that precedes industrialization and is captured by it; the spoiler urbanization; and the speculative (or financial) urbanization that imposes on the urban problematic analyzes and interpretations beyond the center-periphery dualism in the context of the current conformation of the metropolis and its region. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 15/13008-5 - Breaks and continuities offscrems: form, function and structure in the analysis of the stages of the process of restructuring social and space in San Gonçalo, RJ
• Grantee: Juliana Nazare Luquez Viana
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate