Os agentes formadores do espaço urbano da cidade de Viçosa - Alagoas – Brasil

Abstract

Urban space is the medium that enables the development of human activities, relationships and manifestations. It is produced on different scales and undergoes interventions by the training agents who work in the process of building the city. The present work seeks to show the historical evolution of the action of the main agents of the urban space of the city of Viçosa-Alagoas, where we sought to analyze the power of agents in the production of space, in order to understand how space is produced by urban society. As a methodological trajectory, readings of authors such as Santos (1988), Correa (2004), Carlos (2005) e Botelho (2007), as well as exploratory field surveys in the city were carried out. The research showed that until the middle of the 20th century the owner agent was determinant for the expansion of the urban area. Subsequently, the State increases its intervention with the production of housing complexes, which historically has grown faster through the construction of housing units, but recently it is notable for the changes in space and landscape promoted by real estate agents. These three agents mentioned above are responsible for organizing and reorganizing the urban space in the city of Viçosa-Alagoas, which depends on how it isformed and modified leads to positive or negative consequences.