All that is solid it's transformed in the city: an analysis of housing projects in Natal/RN and the tertiary space
Urban Transformation; tertiary space; circuits of the urban economy; built environment; housing.
This thesis assumes that cities are changing. This transformation produces new realities and redefines the urban space, which can be evaluated as an improvement, or not. Concerning areas with previously defined uses, such as housing projects, there is a transformation of their residences, especially about the appropriation of their spaces by a new type of use: those of commerce and/or services. Tertiary space is constantly seen as an important factor in the organization and structuring of space, promoting urbanity, vitality and new economic and people flows, characteristics contrary to those observed in monofunctional housing projects. It is currently seen the indication of this transformation in housing projects promoted by the State, but little is questioned about the real effect of these transformations, nor do they classify their types to analyze them in relation to the complex and the city. It is, therefore, precisely in this research gap that this thesis works, because we believe that the re-appropriation of housing has made the sets of spaces suitable for the reproduction of commercial and service capital, being able to create new centralities and externalities that redesign the initial planning of the sets. In this sense, we aim to investigate the transformations from residential to commercial use or services, in housing projects in the city of Natal/RN, reflecting on their changes in the socio-spatial relations of residential areas and their impacts on the neighborhoods and their surroundings. As a theoretical-methodological conception, in addition to authors such as Fernandes (1997), Santos (2004, 2005, 2008, 2009); Silveira (2004, 2015), Montenegro (2006, 2011, 2012, 2013) Vargas (2000, 2001, 2010, 2020), Cachinho and Salgueiro (2016, 2019), we adopted the theoretical discussion of urban circuits by Milton Santos (1979) to enable the analysis of the differences between the dynamics of the tertiary concerning the location and income of the sets. The study has a Quali-Quanti methodology with field visits, land use mapping, questionnaires, document surveys, and data analysis.