HOUSING POLICIES AND SOCIO-SPATIAL SEGREGATION: THE CASTANHEIRA RESIDENTIAL CASE IN THE DISTRIT COLONIA VENTURA/ TEFE-AM
Urbanization; Housing Policy; Socio-spatial Segregation; Housing.
This work is the result of concerns about the socio-spatial development of the city of Tefe,
having as its central focus the recent urbanization process in the Colonia Ventura neighborhood.
The objective of this work was to analyze the urbanization process and socio-spatial segregation
in the Colonia Ventura neighborhood in the city of Tefe. In this interpretative analysis, the time
frame was based on the years 1991-2023, a period in which the process of occupation and urban
expansion of the Colonia Ventura neighborhood occurred, and the historical milestones of a
conflictual occupation. The object of study is the organization and socio-spatial structure of the
neighborhood, since it is marked by a history of struggle and resistance waged by those who
once needed to occupy it to live. It is in this context that we problematize the organization and
socio-spatial structure of the research area, which we propose to study the following problem:
how did the urbanization process of the Colonia Ventura neighborhood occur and what factors
promote its socio-spatial segregation? The methodological level of this dissertation is based on
a historical-critical-dialectic contextualization, as the phenomena resulting from human
practices are products of historical dimensions that were capable of causing transformations in
society. This is an exploratory and descriptive research, therefore, the work brings a qualitative
approach, as past and present urban productions about the place allowed us to carry out a critical
and reflective analysis of this latent urbanization that privileges some and oppresses others.
Thus, the research was divided into three stages, namely: bibliographic/documentary survey of
existing productions, observation and field practice, serving as means of geographic
investigation.