A (re)produção socioespacial diferenciada e contraditória da cidade: as

Abstract

Formed by an isthmus, the Recife Neighborhood constitutes a fragment of historical, cultural and economic importance of the city of Recife and has suffered urban interventions that results in a process of (re)production differentiated of space, with improvements in the south sector, where the neighborhood is being requalified to shelter equipment of trade and services turned for the leisure and the creative economy, while the north sector, in the part corresponding by the Pilar Community, keep the situation of urban precarity. With the predominance of tertiary activities, the interventions enable the implementations of equipment like bars, craft centers, art galleries, cultural centers, museums etc., glimpsing, specially, the local middle class and tourist consumptions. Meanwhile, inserted in the north part, there is the Pilar Community, practically the only residential core of the neighborhood and, even after the implantation of the first stage of Residential Pilar, to a bigger part of the project there is not even a forecast to when or if it’s going to be effectively implanted. The research has as general objective to analyze the social spatial (re)production differentiated and contradictory of Recife Neighborhood, considering the transformation in the south sector and in the Pilar Community. The methodology was based on the approach qualitative and betake of the following procedures: direct observation in field; photograph register; use of audio-visual resources, informative internet sites sources; semi structured interviews with social agents and politics responsible for the reproduction of this space. It was found that the transformations in course in this neighborhood since the ends of the 1990 decade and, with more power, with the interventions in the Docks zone, though the Novo Recife project, have a worsening in the process of social spatial fragmentation marked by a “rich side” and a “poor side”. Meanwhile in the north sector, the interventions generate a dynamic connected to the consumption, in the Pilar Community the urban life is marked by the induced segregation. That process is as a fragile product of the public power presence, well as the private initiative, because, even though the social inclusion topic be one of the vectors of the actuation of companies from the creative economy segmentation in the neighborhood, in practice, prevails the invisibility of this community.