A Relação cidade e rio na Amazônia: mudanças e permanências frente ao processo de urbanização recente, o exemplo de Santarém (PA)

Abstract

This work makes sense to focus on different and contradictory forms of interaction between the city and the river at Santarem. His problem is constructed, therefore, between the implementation of new regional economic front linked to agribusiness, with repercussions in the city and historical links contact /dependence with the river that draw urban boundaries. Accordingly, we analyze the production of space andrestructuring of the town Santarém as regards the dynamics of the same river. From research and analysis literature and documents, systematic observations, photographic record, application form and semi-structured interviews found that the formation of the city of Santarem sociospatial contexts revealsthat the river boosts the sense of relations and urban forms and other that this importance is relativized by the expansion of economic fronts linked to the road, which reveals the coexistence of different forms of interaction of this city with the rivers. On a scale of space intraurbano we identified a set of patterns of spatial organization, referring to different vectors of urban growth and logics of uses of the city and the river, which aided in there cognition of continuities and changes related to the dynamic waterfront of Santarém. Finally, our analytical exercise is directedto fragments of the city, such as fairs, markets and ports, which revealed the permanence of spatial practices defined in much contact with the river