NEW HOUSE, NEW LIFE? URBAN (I) MOBILITY AT HOUSING COMPLEX “MINHA CASA MINHA VIDA – RANGE 1” IN THE METROPOLIAN REGION OF NATAL

Urban Mobility. Minha Casa Minha Vida Program. Social-Spacial Segregation. Opportunities Structures. RMNatal

The term urban mobility was employed initially as a synonym for urban transport, and later went on to be used the expression urban mobility to define something more comprehensive, raising the need to incorporate other aspects on ordination of displacements in cities in addition to planning the transport system. The term acessibility is often confused with mobility and that adding expressions to refer to everyday offsets indicates a paradigm shift, showing the direction of the focus of the urban mobility planning for people rather than for vehicles. Aggregates as well the need to employ the idea of sustainability planning, enabling also subsidize the inequalities and social inclusion. In the most current research on transport and mobility, it was observed that, in recent years, was built a deeper reflection in terms of social aspects and impacts of urban mobility, which favored the emergence of new perspectives to propose more efficient practices in planning of governmental actions which do not restrict the remedy only the traffic problems, but that can interfere in the framework of socio-spatial segregation and improve access to opportunities for the lower layers rent. There is evidence that in the planning and implementation of urban mobility policies, in general, there is no institutional articulation, this becoming clear when you try to make a bridge with the recent social housing policy in Brazil, object of study of this dissertation. The significant housing production on a large scale by the Minha Casa Minha Vida program (PMCMV) has been implemented in peripheral areas and, in general, didn't come together with mobility solutions that favour ownership by beneficiaries, of their new locations, which may deepen the inequality that should be ameliorated by these policies. We can say that, in general, research about the program Minha Casa Minha Vida (range 1) on RMNatal point problems in your implementation with regard to joint locations. The fact of being inserted in peripheral areas and devoid of services and equipment necessary for everyday play a socio-spatial segregation would configure. This observation indicated in surveys cited prior motivated the choice of our empirical study in this field. The objective of this research is to conduct a more specific and in-depth evaluation in aspects related to mobility, trying to go beyond the diagnoses already designed on the urban insertion, seeking to understand how these sets constitute in fact this picture, what significance this has for insertion of the residents in the structures and in the relationships of sociability, and how the mobility  could interfere positively.