Urbanization and social-spatial segragation in the city of São José dos Campos-SP: Pinheirinho case study

Abstract

The city of São Jose do Campos, located in the state of São Paulo, has presented an intense peripheral growth, which has occurred in two ways: with the proliferation of illegal developments and also increasing the number of development oriented to the high/middle classes. In this context, fast urban growth, supported by the capital and its technician-industrial diffusion, produces uncountable movements of spatial-social segregation that borders all low income population and, comparatively, also establishes the high standard zones of occupation. Thus, the urban segregation occurs when a city has tendency to have spatial organization in zones of strong internal social homogeneity and high social inequality between them. Studying, under the optics of the capitalist expansion inside of an underdeveloped country as Brazil, its ramifications connected to a medium municipality as São José dos Campos, considering its urbanization, taking as a recent example the occupation of the area known as "Pinheirinho", located in the south region of the city, is the final proposal of this paper.