A dispersão urbana na “região metropolitana de Natal”: novas espacialidades e velhas contradições

Abstract

This thesis is to study the object of urban sprawl in the current context, in which observed changes in settlement patterns of urban spaces that make up the urban design in a piecemeal way, fragmented and polycentric. These changes result in increased energy expenditure and the need for increased spending on infrastructure access to the displacement of people and environmental impacts. It was from the observation of such changes in the occupation of the territory of RMNatal we proposed this research, which aims to understand the production of urban space in the Metropolitan Region of Natal (RMNatal) and the effects and or changes caused by the action of public policies and the private capital in their municipalities, being logical and patterns quite different occupation - spatial and social, that characterize the urban sprawl process. The starting point of theoretical studies and research of authors such as Limonad (2007), Spósito (2007.2009), Monte-Mór (2006, 2007), Reis (2006, 2007), Lencione (2010, 2011), Clementino (1995 2009, 2015), Milton Santos (1996, 2008), Lefebvre (1999, 2001), Clark (1991) among others who have examined the question of production and reproduction of urban space and its socio-spatial developments which highlights the dispersion urban. In this sense, the theoretical questions were analyzed that relate to urban sprawl, the theoretical models of the structures of cities, the metropolises, the research area of the urbanization process and the main objects and actions that mark the changes and the passage of the compact city to form a reticular region RMNatal. The results derived from theoretical and methodological exercise using geotechnologies with the spatial distribution of data and information collected during the research that reflect the urban sprawl in RMNatal. The variables related to land use were analyzed, the pendularity, technical-scientific-informational milieu and urban habitats that make up the content-forms and make RMNatal most segregated and fragmented urban fabric. All this indicates that urban sprawl is in training in RMNatal, accentuating up the processes of fragmentation and segregation in RM that needs further attention and planning.