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Urban space; Urban Expansion; Main Roads; Campina Grande-PB.
The work is part of the research carried out in the main roads of the Campina Grande trade expansion, in the interior of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil. Our objective is to understand the restructuring of commerce and services in main roads of this city, by the discussion of space production. For this, we’re based on the Production of Space Theory, created by the French philosopher Henri Lefebvre, that analises social relations in the space. Our text intends to engender reflections about our object of study based on this theory. For theoretical and methodological support, Henri Lefebvre's (1999) propositions of regressive-progressive method were used. The description of the studied areas were made, in order to return to the past to understand some occurred transformations. After that, back to the presente scenario, we can dialectically understand the perspectives and projections of our object of study. As a central hypothesis, our thesis assumes that expansionism of peripheral comercial areas occurs through the main road axes, by continuous extension from the tertiary activities (from 1999 to 2019) that have helped to structure the socio-spatial dynamics. We found important changes in the urban space. As consequence of the space production, the roads that had residential characteristics, are under intense reformulations by commercial road axes. As methodological procedures, we fulfill a survey about the use of the following roadways of trade expansion: Manoel Gonçalves Guimarães; Floriano Peixoto; Severino Bezerra Cabral; Manoel Tavares and Assis Chateaubriand. Commercial restructuration occur in the process of commercial decentralization, that has intensified in last years by commercial enterprises has been installed in these roads, changing the functions, uses and the social composition of these avenues.