A expansão dos assentamentos residenciais na Ilha do Mosqueiro: uma particularidade de dispersão urbana no espaço metropolitano de Belém (PA)

Abstract

This study‟s main objective is to analyze Belém‟s sprawled shape, taking the Administrative District of Mosqueiro as empirical reference, which is a place for leisure, traditionally attended by the population of the Pará state capital. In this district, the urban settlements that distinguish themselves in the landscape are the residential ones, especially those occasionally used, the so called second residences. Their number increased due to the metropolization process in Belém since 1970. However, nowadays Belém‟s metropolitan sprawl, on a broader geographic scale, has been decisive in incorporating Mosqueiro as area of action of socially excluded groups that strive for housing as well as for the transformation of those second residences into primary ones. Thereby, the production of space in Mosqueiro occurs basically due to the reproduction of its social relations of production, mostly with regard to the replacement of workforce by the acquisition of housing.