A expansão urbana via implementação de loteamentos sobre terras rurais nos municípios de Jiquiriçá, Mutuípe e Santa Inês(Bahia).

Abstract

The process of urban expansion through the implementation of allotments on rural lands results in new spatial forms that modify the use and value of space. In the municipalities of Jiquiriçá, Mutuípe and Santa Inês, Bahia, a significant number of urban subdivision was identified, which led to the formulation of two central questions: how does the conversion of rural land into urban land? What drives this process and who acts? It was found that the production of part of the allotments identified is not directly related to the demand for housing, but, above all, to the valorization of space and the consequent appropriation of an increased land rent. Like this, it was revealed that, in part of the allotments identified, the production is financed by society in the form of the State, while the production of fixed capital on the ground results in an increased rent that is appropriated privately. In Santa Inês (BA), it was also revealed that three of the four allotments did not officially have the conversion of rural land into urban land. The path taken in the research included bibliographic research, survey and analysis of satellite images, documentary research divided between the study of federal and municipal legislation on the production of allotments and urban sprawl, as well as the investigation of the Certificates of Entire Content of the properties transformed into allotments in the municipality of Santa Inês. It was revealed that the production of space occurs unevenly, and that the subjects – landowners – real estate agents and the State act in a combined way in the production of value of and in space, with private property being the mediator of this process.