A (RE)PRODUÇÃO DO ESPAÇO URBANO NA PORÇÃO SUL DE PARAÍSO DO TOCANTINS - TO

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the process of (re) production of the urban space in the southern region of Paraíso do Tocantins, recognizing the conditioners of the phenomenon and its agents of production. In order to do so, it establishes a broad specialized bibliographical revision, dialoguing, fundamentally, with theories of the social production of space and the reproduction of urban space, analysis of the historical conjuncture that underlies the production processes in the city besides the documentary investigation of the legislations that affect urban planning It is understood that the speculative and segregating urban expansion currently occurring in the municipality of Paraíso do Tocantins is explained by a set of interconnected factors, of which the fact that it is the municipality located in the BR-153 axis closest to the capital Palmas, as well as the conditions created by the State through legislative frameworks for urban planning. It is concluded from this interpretative exercise that the reproduction of urban space in a small city obeys the same determinants of capitalist accumulation based on the income of the land of medium and large cities.