A estrutura imobiliária da Região Metropolitana do Recife : a mercadoria habitação como promotora da fragmentação do urbano

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Author	Costa, Leonardo B. Da
Copyright Year	2019
Abstract	The aim of this thesis is to analyze the production of the urban space in the built environment of the Metropolitan Region of Recife (RMR, in Portuguese), based on the performance of its formal real estate market, which was boosted by the Minha Casa Minha Vida program and inserted in the financial capitalist model. This process shaped what would be known in the construction industry as the economic segment of the market, with dwellings around 50 m² in area, a large number of housing units per project, leisure spaces and their own streets. These projects are also being built in the socially and geometrically disadvantaged suburbs of the RMR, creating a fragmented urban space which is planned and produced in accordance with the interests of capitalists. Unlike previous projects, these housing units are located in areas which had been occupied by a population outside the formal market’s most obvious production spectrum. From the dialectical relationship between form and content, the author sought to establish the criteria of analysis for this market. The content of the housing production for the so-called economic market segment is described here in three points: the first relates to the type of dominant capital reasoning applied by companies, be it mercantile, industrial, or financial; secondly, the relationship between these companies’ local operation scale and how their strategies are increasingly connected to non-local issues; and thirdly: consumers’ demand for these economic segment housing units. The interplay between these three aspects reveals part of the content of such housing production, and is analyzed here by means of interviews with representatives of the real estate companies that are most relevant in the RMR housing sector, as well as by secondary data provided by several institutions. The author concludes that the housing production focused on the economic segment of the market intensifies a process of urban fragmentation, in consonance with an urban logic defined by the appreciation in the value of private areas, now in the hands of classes of similar income, a development that is largely statesponsored.
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