As modificações socioespaciais recentes ocorridas na área urbana do município de Cajueiro – AL

Abstract

This article brings in its core an analysis of the socio-spatial changes related to the urban area where the city of Cajueiro, in Alagoas, is circumscribed, in the temporal interstice from 2000 to 2022. In this context, it seeks to demonstrate that the rural exodus experienced in the period fostered a new urban morphology that was mainly due to the closure of the activities of Capricho Company, then located in the rural area of Cajueiro. In this attempt, the research is based on the survey of social, economic and environmental data in the period studied, with a view to dimensioning the chances that occurred. It is emphasized that this is a research based on historical and dialectical materialism, of an exploratory nature, whose approach is based on bibliographic and documentary evidence, of a quantitative and qualitative nature, using statistical data, analysis of documents, images and theoretical references available, which will substantiate the research. Divided int three stages, at first, the urbanization process in the world and in the Brazil will be characterized; subsequently, economic, social and environmental indicators related to the city of Cajueiro will be presented; in the third stage, a comparative analysis of the tabulated data will be carried out, correlating them with the closure of Capricho’s Company activities. As a result, the effects of the rural exodus will be demonstrated, especially in terms of socio-spatial segregation, economic inequalities, increased poverty and damage to the local environment.