Da hierarquização funcional à segregação do espaço urbano : uma análise da Vila Operadora de Estreito-SP
Abstract
Despite being independent from the housing market and its effects, the
residential villages, built by companies linked with the productive and energetic sectors for
their workers, has reproduced the fragmentation space typical from a city where the space
conflicts are noticeable.
It s the relation company/urban formation which states the singularity of these
living sites which are found all over the national territory. The operating village (similar to a
company town) of Estreito hydroelectric dam placed in the countryside of São Paulo state
(Pedregulho municipality, microregion of Franca), undoubtly one of these cases, is the main
objective focused on present study.
The way that either main or general objective of the research is to understand,
using analytical comparisons to other urban experiences of villages, the motivating processes
for the production of a segregative space in the village of Estreito which belongs to Furnas
Centrais Elétricas S/A.
As a strategy of research, the study focus on the moment which the village of
Estreito-SP was idealized and implanted, its original project, in other words, it was discussed
the initial objectives of the creation of a village with segregative spaces and its main
characteristics. So, the proceeding method adopted passed along and abstracted points of
historical method looking for comprehension of the object on its time as well as its
development. It was used not only survey applied at the residents of the village who has lived
therefore more than twenty years, some informal notes but also the experience and living of
the researcher in the location to reach the analytical description of the object.
It was made a literary analysis tanging the thematic of social-spacial
segregation and of the Company towns and its correlative as the operating villages in the first
part of this dissertation. In the sequence descriptions and analysis of the empiric object,the
village of Estreito by studying the calculated case in a descriptive and analytic history. To end
the research there are the final considerations in which some indagations of research are
answered such as the indication of main motivating factors to create a space which states the
quality of life including the different living types is the attraction of qualified labor force to
end the research.