THE PROCESS OF VERTICALIZATION IN NOVA PARNAMIRIM:THE PRODUCTION OF THE URBAN SPACE OF NATAL
Verticalization process, Nova Parnamirim, Production of metropolitan space, Natal.
In our everyday life, we observe the landscape changes that have been taking in Nova Parnamirim in the last ten years. We realized, mainly, the growth in the number of condominiums with vertical buildings. This fact motivated us to make a research about this process observed in the neighborhood landscape. We start from the hypothesis that the verticalization process in Nova Parnamirim is a continuity of the production of the urban space and the verticalization process in Natal. In this perspective, we ask: what are the strategies and practices of the economic, political and social agents that make the verticalization process in Nova Parnamirim a continuity in the space-time of the process of the production of the urban space of Natal? In this context, this thesis has the general objective of understanding the process of verticalization in Nova Parnamirim as a continuity of the production of the urban space and the verticalization of Natal, through strategies and practices, at different scales, of economic, political and social agents. For this understanding, we highlight the montage, development and deployment of the verticalization process in Nova Parnamirim. The partial results show that the montage of the verticalization in Nova Parnamirim is in the production of the space and the verticalization in Natal, began in an incipient way in the decade of 1930, becoming more expressive in the landscape in the end of the decade of 1960. From the decade of 1990 saw the start of the verticalization process in Nova Parnamirim. On the one hand, this process had a continuity and an expansion after the world economic crisis of 2008. On the other hand, this process became discontinuous after the urban, political and economic crisis that has been taking in Brazil since 2013. The developments in this process show the "heteronomous discourse" of the residents and of the socio-spatial representations of vertical condominiums. In the same way, verticalization unfolds in the "self-segregation" of the residents and the "metropolitan social-spatial fragmentation". A final deployment refers to the "urban pedagogy" produced by verticalization, contrary to the "right to the city", "socio-spatial justice" and "urban development".