Shopping centers e o processo de metropolização em Fortaleza

Abstract

The thematic of shopping malls is insert of the transformation of trade, associated with the real estate and financial dynamics of metropolitan spaces. From this perspective, the aim of this thesis was to analyze the metropolization, from shopping centers in the new logics of production and appropriation of the metropolitan space of Fortaleza. The temporal cut was the period between 1974 and 2016. And the specific objectives were: to ascertain the new localization logics of shopping centers developed as strategies of economic agents; to understand the relationship between financial, commercial and real estate capital in the production of shopping centers and its repercussions on the metropolization of the capital of Ceará; to contextualize the socio-spatial processes promoted by the shopping centers in the metropolitan space strengthen; to analyze the significant transformations of the new relations between center and periphery, making possible the understanding of the shopping centers inserted in the metropolitan restructuring strengthen. The methodological path was based on the analysis of the reality of lived, perceived and produced in space, it was sought to advance in different geographic scales, considering, therefore, to contribute in a more comprehensive way to the studies on the shopping centers in the metropolis fortalezence and its implications in the production of the urban space in metropolitan context. Influencing categorically in the process of metropolization of the capital of Ceará. The research was developed using the following methodological procedures: bibliographical review on topics such as metropolization, urbanization, city and shopping center; documentary research in several public and private agencies in order to ascertain and contextualize the subject studied; empirical analysis through field observations, mapping and interviewing. It is understood that new contents in this metropolitan area can be problematized and investigated; having as reflexive instruments the categories, the dynamics and the spatial processes. The metropolization of Fortaleza gained new social and spatial contents from the production and expansion of the shopping centers, being these ventures related to the recent performance of the triad of commercial-real estate-financial capital. Shopping centers, among other contemporary dynamics, are undoubtedly a material expression of the process of metropolitan restructuring. Thus, in recent years, some municipalities in the metropolitan region undergo transformations intensified by the action of centers as a product and producer of the metropolitan space. These equipments have a direct relation with the transformations of the world economy, with strong repercussions in the current stage of the metropolization of Fortaleza.