Abstract
Between the 2000 and 2007 years, 17.407.128,24 m² of lands were closed in Campinas, divided into 50 gated communities. In consonance to these figures, it is possible to presume that a portion part of this city population is choosing to live in the distant and isolated settlements instead of to set in the core center and consolidated urban areas. Many times, this way of habitat, far from t…