THE FRAGMENTATION OF THE SUI GENERIS METROPOLIS: THE PRODUCTION OF GATED COMMUNITIES IN THE BRASÍLIA METROPOLITAN AREA

Abstract

Articulating socio-spatial processes and their forms makes it possible to analyze the transformation of their contents, which end up generating new processes. The general objective of this article is to investigate the influence of the socio-spatial fragmentation process on the commercialization of housing units in the metropolis. For this, first, we seek to differentiate the institutional actions of regional and metropolitan planning and, then, analyze the consumption of Closed Residential Spaces in the Metropolitan Area of Brasília. After the bibliographical research, a research was carried out in legal documents that deal with the regional and metropolitan order of the federal capital. Still in the documentary research, a report from the Central Bank of Brazil-BACEN was analyzed, which contains data on credit operations with collateral by type of implementation. It was found that, contrary to the previous moment, institutional actions for spatial planning in Brasília are currently shifting from the regional scale to the metropolitan scale. In addition, it was also possible to verify that the process of socio-spatial fragmentation produces Closed Residential Spaces as the privileged form of housing and, in the Metropolitan Area of Brasília, this process is in accentuation, both in Brasília and in the municipalities of Goiás involved in its spatiality.