A intervenção do capital imobiliário no processo de produção do espaço urbano: um estudo do bairro Ponta de Campina, Cabedelo-PB, entre 2005-2020

Abstract

The production of urban space in Brazilian cities is still connected with the way through which the land division happened in the country since its colonization. This context seems to explain the reason why onlya small portionof the population has the right over private propriety – land/housing, opposed to most people who aremarginalized economically and have their rights denied throughout History. This factor remains determiningthe social disparity scenario and is associated with the configuration of urban spaces until nowadays, especially on coastal areas whose appeal of its natural potential stands as a prime attraction for real estate capital. This factor guides therefore the space production according to the agents’ interests and strategies which are responsible for this construction, thus determining the occupation of each urban stretch of the city. As a result of the empirical observation in which mostly the entire northeastern oceanic coast is presented, thiswork focuses on the analysis of the production of urban space production on vacation areas, more specifically on Ponta de Campina, a neighborhood in Cabedelo, city located within the metropolitan region of João Pessoa – PBState, in order to understandthe interference of real estate capital in the process of territorial and urban occupation in the area, while remnants of land not yet subdivision on the north coast of João Pessoa City and surroundings.