masterThesis
Sobre como o poder público resolve a questão da moradia: a urbanização, a remoção e o reassentamento de favelas em Natal/RN (2001 - 2017)
Fecha
2018-06-25Registro en:
ROCHA, Luis Renato Nogueira da. Sobre como o poder público resolve a questão da moradia: a urbanização, a remoção e o reassentamento de favelas em Natal/RN (2001 - 2017). 2018. 122f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Estudos Urbanos e Regionais) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2018.
Autor
Rocha, Luis Renato Nogueira da
Resumen
The city of Natal, like other cities in Brazil, has different patterns of use and occupation of its
urban space. These differences are evidenced by the different types of land use and
occupation and bring light to the division of the city into formal and informal spaces. Housing
problems, closely linked to this division, are manifested by the emergence of favelas and
other precarious forms of housing, namely clandestine subdivisions, irregular occupations and
degraded housing complexes. Housing inadequacy, characterized by lack of adequate
infrastructure, high population density and land irregularity, is present in the four regions of
the city (North, South, East and West). However, over the last two decades, important
transformations have taken place in the urban setting of Natal, especially in favela areas.
Interventions carried out in parts of the territory where these poverty structures existed (and
still exist) had as their background the decades-long context of socio-spatial division of the
city. In the period between the years 2000 and 2017, 17 favelas in Natal have undergone some
type of intervention, be it removal and resettlement, or urbanization. In this context, this
research, which consists of an empirical-descriptive study, aims, in a general way, to analyze
the implementation of social housing public policies that concern the removal, resettlement
and urbanization of favelas and other forms of precarious settlements in the city, seeking to
investigate the projects implemented in the municipality; identify how the practices of public
power are integrated with the public policy planning implemented; and to know the effects of
these policies on the urban space of the city. Throughout the research, interviews were
conducted with the actors involved in the actions. Institutional documents such as plans,
projects and diagnoses, were also analyzed, as well as journalistic articles, which reported the
interventions of the public power in the favelas.
The results of the research point to a possible improvement in the housing conditions of the
population targeted for removals, resettlement and urbanization, but on the other hand they
indicate signs of the reproduction of the segregation pattern of the poor in the city, a
phenomenon that has historically been present in the urban configuration.