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| Author(s): |
Danilo Volochko
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2012-02-27 |
| Examining board members: |
Ana Fani Alessandri Carlos;
Amelia Luisa Damiani;
Paulo Cesar Xavier Pereira;
Silvana Maria Pintaudi;
Cibele Saliba Rizek
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| Advisor: | Ana Fani Alessandri Carlos |
| Abstract | |
The production of space in Sao Paulos present-day urbanization involves, as one of its aspects, the extension of property development to the metropolitan peripheries as an outcome of the construction of homogeneous and productive housing projects that express and materialize a host of different processes. Among these processes, it is worth mentioning the refinement of (domestic and foreign) finance capitals strategies linked with its reproduction in the city, especially concerning the attempts by the property sector at overcoming spatial barriers such as the lack of developable land in the citys upscale districts due to the existence of private property. The contradictions of space give rise to a range of mechanisms that work to solve this situation. I have attempted to analyze, in this research, the ways in which the intertwining between the financialization of real estate represented here by large developers raising capital by issuing stocks in the stock exchange (Bovespa) and government policies such as Minha Casa, Minha Vida housing program extend the spaces of capitalist reproduction, demanding the production of new spatialities: residential condominiums that have become part of the landscape in peripheral areas, where the urban fabric is fractured by fairly large vacant land plots up until recently largely devalued. Valle Verde Cotia a large development located in Cotia (Sao Paulo metropolitan area) sheltering almost 2500 families epitomizes the process by which social fractions composed primarily of low-income households (people that used to rent or live with relatives often in self-built houses) are integrated into the mortgage market and pushed to such places. In such housing developments, there is a radical metamorphosis of the home, of the street, of the neighborhood, and of spatial and housing practices that stems from the production of massive, symmetric and repetitive spatial forms within the parameters of formal/legal housing markets, thus opening up for these families the perspective of an eventual access to private property. In light of this, the appropriate point to be made here concerns the reproduction of social inequality on a whole new level, as well as the widening of the social foundations of capitalist reproduction. All this produces an unequal everyday life in new spaces that become, in their entirety, new fields for real estate profits on the outskirts of the metropolis. While this process certainly includes some people, it also dispossesses others chiefly the poorest among the poor, who may be displaced to ever more distant areas. And even those who by chance effect the property, will not be free of a possible loss of their homes because their future debt can point this. An intensification of socio-spatial segregation through fragmentations and hierarchizations of metropolitan peripheral spaces is an observable outcome these trends. (AU) | |