Veraneio marítimo e expansão metropolitana no Ceará: Fortaleza em Aquiraz

Abstract

The research Veraneio Marítimo e Expansão Metropolitana no Ceará: Fortaleza em Aquiraz (Maritime Summering and Metropolis expansion: Fortaleza in Aquiraz), has, as a general goal, to understand the relation between the valorization of coast spaces and the expansion of the metropolis of Ceará. The doing of modern maritime activities (sea baths, tourism, summering), especially summering, represent new possibilities of approximation of society with the sea, detaching the coast space as the main place that populations of big cities have to have fun and to live. This way, the urbanization becomes a process related to the dissemination of the modern maritime life. The modern maritime life is spread out for the society of Fortaleza for the whole state of Ceara from the 70’s, and first reaches the small citys of Aquiraz and Caucaia, members since 1973 of the initial formation of the metropolitan region of Fortaleza. To understand this process, the case of the expansion of the maritime summering thru the cost of Aquiraz was analized. When you understand the influence of the metropolis in the spreading of maritime summering, you see how the coast space is reached by the urban tissue of Fortaleza. The summering people, real estate entrepreneurs, the people who live in local beaches, the public power of small cities and States are social subjects involved in the process of the making of un urban discontinous morphology, characterized by urban divisions and accumulations of second residences. The household-electric, the car traffic, the tv, the habits, the differentiated standard of accessing the land generates indicative unfoldings of the arrival of the urban one in the littoral space of Aquiraz. The buildings of summering represent new trends related to the desire of isolation, associated to the people who live in Fortaleza. The analysis of the nuclei of Iguape, Prainha, Porto das Dunas and Plug demonstrates that the summering in Aquiraz constitutes territories, in which the metropolis and its society exist. Analyzing the Managing Plan of Urban Development of Aquiraz, concluded in the year of 2001, it was understood that the small city public power, based on the plans of government of the state public power, legitimizes the process of valuation of the littoral space and assigns, through laws and zonings, preferential areas for the expansion of the process of littoral valuation. It is proven valuation of the littoral spaces as a necessary process for the expansion of the metropolis for the metropolitans small cities pertaining to the state of Ceará.