Reestruturação econômica e urbana em uma cidade média do semiárido brasileiro

Abstract

The paper analyzes the production of urban space and its articulation with the real estate market, based on the reality investigated in Londrina - PR. The aim is to examine the expansion and evolution of the urban land prices in order to grasp the process of selective enhancement of space engendered by the mechanisms of the circuit real state.Thus, the conjuncture of the last decade was substratum for the investigative process. However, the physical-territorial expansion respect to actions undertaken by agents historically responsible for the production of urban space under the capitalist mode of production: private agents, the state and civil society. We reflect on the action of lots` developers in the last four decades, and the State, the promotion of housing and structuring of the city. Comprising this analytical framework, the study turns to the evolution of urban land prices from the survey and mapping thevariables in land classified in the largest local circulation newspaper site. Finally, we try to analyze the structure of urban space by the dynamics of real estate activity, investigating the more specific case of the East Side.