doctoralThesis
A evolução do segmento supermercadista e as transformações do espaço urbano em Natal/RN
Fecha
2020-12-29Registro en:
LIMA, Andria Carla Araújo da Silva. A evolução do segmento supermercadista e as transformações do espaço urbano em Natal/RN. 2020. 225f. Tese (Doutorado em Geografia) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2020.
Autor
Lima, Andria Carla Araújo da Silva
Resumen
The current research is centered on the study of the evolution of the supermarket
segment and the transformations of Natal-RN’s urban space. Because of the
alterations that have been happening on the productive system, in the context of the
economy’s globalization, new forms of trade, that demand large areas to settle, are
born. The highlight is the retail commerce with the predominance of food products, like
supermarkets, hypermarkets, and wholesale/retail hybrid stores. These commercial
developments influence the city’s dynamic, therefore influencing the space-producing
process since they create new urban spatiality. This study defends the thesis that
supermarket retail commerce is an important vector of the transformations that have
been taking place in Natal since the 1970s. To prove the announced thesis, the
systematization of the study was guided by methodological procedures, with the
bibliographical, documentary, and on-site surveys being highlighted, in addition to the
use of periodization. The technical-conceptual construction happened through
bibliographic research, by consulting several books, journals, dissertations, and thesis
that contributed to the discussions about urban space, production of space, the city,
commerce, modern retail and the supermarket, among others. The research also
collected secondary data from public bodies, from interviews, and from cartographic
production that referred to its study area. The results indicate that there was a
correlation between the supermarket’s commercial activity expansion, and the
transformation in Natal-RN’s urban space, considering that the activity brought space
valorization, redefined the location of business developments in the same segment,
and also provided an emergency for spatial practices. This research proves to be
relevant because of the contributions in the comprehension of Natal’s spatial dynamic,
and, especially, it also contributes to the comprehension of the commercial activity’s
dynamic, with emphasis on the supermarket segment. In this sense, the research
highlights the relationship between commerce and the city from an analytical
perspective, based on the supermarket segment’s dynamic.