Cidade gentrificada: um estudo dos processos de reconfiguração do espaço urbano de Vitória/ES

Abstract

This study analyzes the urbanization processes of Brazilian cities and the consequences of an unequal territorial occupation, sometimes coined in antidemocratic legal regulations, as segregationist Municipal Director Plans, dissociated from the constitutional foundations of the Right to housing, understood as Fundamental Law of second generation. At first, the legal basis of the Right to housing together with related themes was followed, followed by a bibliographical research of studies on land occupation and its effects, such as spatial segregation, violence, urban mobility and re-qualification of the cities or their decadent regions, highlighting the latter, as it resulted in the explanations of traditional scholars about the ennoblement of Brazilian cities and their processes of gentrification. Aiming to identify the occurrence of this phenomenon in the city of Vitoria, the historical and contemporary characteristics of the neighborhood of Santa Maria Island were analyzed, through bibliographic research and adaptation of the models of gentrification of developed countries to the Brazilian reality, capable of confirming or to refute the hypothesis of the occurrence of a gentrification process in this neighborhood of the capital of Espírito Santo