doctoralThesis
Os ventos que movem as velas do mercado: intervenções urbanas em frentes de água no contexto da produção do espaço da cidade de Fortaleza - CE
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2018-11-23Registro en:
MENDES, Marília Colares. Os ventos que movem as velas do mercado: intervenções urbanas em frentes de água no contexto da produção do espaço da cidade de Fortaleza - CE. 2018. 206f. Tese (Doutorado em Geografia) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2018.
Autor
Mendes, Marília Colares
Resumen
The purpose of this research was to analyze the urban interventions that act on the
waterfronts and that restructure the surroundings of the port area of the city of
Fortaleza from the production of the space. We assume as a temporal cut the
beginning of the 21st century, and more specifically, the years 2000 to 2017. We start
from the thesis that urban policies are directed to privileged spaces of the city, in this
case, the waterfronts that correspond to the section of the avenue Beira Mar. In order
to understand the phenomenal experience of the empirical cut, we are supported in
the theoretical contributions fomented by the regressive-progressive method, which
allowed us to understand the production of the urban space of the Fortaleza
waterfronts contextualized to a totality. However, based on this method, it was
possible to resort to historical processes to unravel the current dynamics, when,
during the second half of the twentieth century, the coastal area becomes one of the
most valued and disputed in the city, making public power different interventions that
culminated in the incorporation and urban renewal. Today, the segment comprising
the Praia de Iracema, Meireles and Mucuripe districts is marked by a close
relationship between real estate and tourism dynamics, characterized by the high
price of urban land, the concentration of residential condominiums and high-standard
hotels and the best access conditions services and urban infrastructure. At the same
time, Fortaleza maintains an important peculiarity in relation to the occupation of its
waterfronts, since it is characterized by a city that is intensely fragmented,
segregated, plundered and denounces through its urban fabric the inequalities of all
orders. In the current context of entrepreneurship in urban governance and the
consolidation of strategic planning, we understand that these urban interventions are
a trigger for real estate development, in the same proportion that the State creates
and modernizes new urban and tourist facilities, such as the Maritime Terminal of
Passengers, the Ceará Aquarium and the Fish Market. These projects meet the ideas
of "requalification" of central urban areas and water fronts that have already been
realized in other cities around the world, such as those experienced in the
experiences of American cities, the Iberian peninsula (Portugal and Spain) and the
pioneering projects in Brazil. We highlight in our investigation the projects that are
currently being implemented and implemented in the waterfronts and which point out
a new urban proposal for the city of Fortaleza. We find through the research that
investments in large projects are linked to urban renewal in the city of Fortaleza and
are given in the production of an environment built for the interests of large private
agents, which intensifies and sharpens socio-spatial disparities in the city. For the
realization of a project such as Nova Beira, we identified some intentionalities related
to the de-bureaucratization of the private sector's activities and changes in legal
purposes in order to create new equipment or to modernize those already existing.
New interventions are designed and implemented to foster the competitive insertion
of the city into the global economy, generating new conflicts and forms of resistance.