EXPANSÃO DE CAETITÉ E FORMAÇÃO DAS NOVAS PERIFERIAS URBANAS: OS BAIRROS NOSSA SENHORA DA PAZ E SÃO VICENTE

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the small city as a socio-spatial construction of conflicts between classes, which are expressed in the contents and in urban morphology, and reveal the division of labor in the urban space, with a focus on Caetité. The methodology was based on bibliographic and documentary research, and on interviews and mapping, which contributed to identify the vectors of the formation of peripheries in small cities. Understanding the spatial dialectic, as a result of the developed political, economic and social relations, supports the structural bases that guarantee the composition of peripheral areas also in small urban spaces and the spatial design reveals poor and status peripheries, which differ in a peculiar way and reveal complexities of urbanization.