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Currently, the production of horizontal condominiums popular in the cities of São Paulo, has shown significant growth. The role of the developer capital, selecting strategically subjective aspects that refer to standards of living associated with the elite, combined with the ease in financing, exercises significant interest to anyone who is looking to own a home. However, the small size of the homes, the distance at which they are inserted, in addition to the rules and conflicts that pervade everyday life in these spaces, belies the promises of a better ‘quality of life’ from the acquisition of a residence in a condominium. This article presents part of the analysis of research conducted through interviews with residents and future residents of popular condominiums closed in two Paulistas cities: Presidente Prudente and São Carlos.

Raconter mon histoire autant qu´artiste de théâtre dans une petite ville à BahiaBrésil est l’objectif de la présentation de cet article, que prend ma recherche de Master développé à Itambé-BA, à partir du rencontre entre les habitants et un lieu choisi par eux sera lu à partir d’un lieu caché dans la mémoire de chacun. Pour cela, réflexions d´auteurs et d´artistes seront utilisés pour démontrer comment le théâtre peut encourager les citoyens à interférer scéniquement dans l’espace urbain socioculturel qu´ils vivent. Itambé, une petite ville de trente mille habitants sera considéré comme un moyen de comprendre ce moment culturel, mais aussi dans d’autres villes de l’intérieur du Brésil avec les mêmes caractéristiques. Loin des grands centres urbains ces villes vivent des initiative des artistes qui luttent pour sensibiliser le public sur l’importance de l’art dans le développement d’une ville. Grâce à des méthodes participatives où les artistes sollicitent la participation des citoyens et vice versa mettre à la disposition du présent article expériences montrant la puissance que le théâtre a dans la vie de la ville et comment les autorités locales les aceuilles.

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L’agro-industrie de soja consolidé, au Brésil, à partir des années 1980, se constitue comme une des principales chaînes productives de la structure agricole brésilienne, offrant des grains, son de blé e d’huiles pour l’approvisionnement du marché interne et externe. Dans la récolte 2013/2014, la production a atteint plus de 87 millions de tonnes cultivées en trente millions hectares, qui représentent juste 8,9% dans la domaine cultivées au Bresil. Les exportations de soja em grains couvrent 42 millions de tonnes dans l’année agricole 2012/2013, l’équivalent a U$ 22,8 milliards. Les segments de grains, huile e son de blé ont gagné U$ S 31 milliards, qui signifie 12,8 % de toutes les ventes externes du Brésil et 31 % des exportations de l’agro-industrie brésiliens. Ce texte a pour objectif d’identifier les facteurs responsables de la recente dinamique de cette chaîne productive dans le territoire bresilien et son insertion au marché mondial.

Cet article propose une discussion sur les possibilités de coordination des actions aux échelles régionales et locales et le défi de penser l’aménagement territorial partagé dans les processus d’élaboration de politiques publiques. Des formes d’aménagement partagé entre des échelles d’action publique territoriale sont experimentées dans de nombreux pays au monde. Cependant, dans la réalité politique et institutionnelle brésilienne, marquée par un système fédéral dont les normes ne sont pas assez claires, la coordination entre les échelons fédéraux s’avère um enjeux difficile. En outre, la sectorisation des processus décisionnels pour la mise en œuvre de politiques publiques est aussi un obstacle à franchir. Dans ce cadre, le texte soulève une réflexion sur les limites et les possibilités des formes de coopération entre municipalités et entre celles-ci et les autres échelles de pouvoir pour une gestion du territoire plus integrée. Sont également discutés certains exemples de formes de collaboration et d’aménagement territorial partagé dans d’autres pays du monde afin de les confronter aux défis de la logique interescalar et intersectorielle dans la conduite des politiques publiques dans le contexte brésilien.

The global process of spatial rearrangement of human actions put in focus new themes and scales of analysis of the territory, such as local and regional, that simultaneous to the scale of the union of countries in blocks, result in opening possibilities for multilevel governance structures, or impose redefinition of the roles of the states. It is in this scenario, that the territory emerges as a source or strategy of political power and economic, of dispute of groups or social classes whom have different interests and often conflicting. In this sense, the theme on State and public intervention is important because it constitutes the scale of phenomena arising from the decisional institutional universe of the political territorially centralized, when growing the importance of the decentralization of state power. The aim of this paper is to show that the recomposition of the scales of global, regional and local phenomena define significant parts for the management of territorial policies, while grow the challenges of cooperation and coordination. Thus, we reiterate here the relevance of the contributions from political geography and institutionalist political economics, analyzing, each in its own way, as how political phenomena and institutional forms are territorialized and cut out significant spaces of governance of social relations, their interests, commitments, conflicts, control, domination and power.

We examine the ways through which the urban renewal projects in the region of La Plaine Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of the metropolitan region of Paris, relate to the current global political and economic strategies of intervention in urban space and can enhance socio-spatial segregation in a place-based approach. The strategies base projects with very similar logics in other world cities and legitimize themselves through rhetoric as mixité sociale, which, in turn, try to hide the consequent processes of gentrification. Based on academic studies, fieldworks and observation of neighbourhood associations meetings and other events organized by government, we clarify the specific aspects of the development and implementation of urban renewal projects in La Plaine Saint-Denis, demonstrating that major intervention projects in space are far from mitigating socio-spatial inequalities.

The formation of the Lauraceas State Park has marked a transition period in the administrative policy of Paraná. Until then, most efforts in that region have been concentrated on questions of colonization and land tenure regulations. Since the 1980s, actions have turned to natural conservation with integrated protection measures. Throughout the last decade, a gradually increasing link between environmental and agrarian public policies could be observed, especially related to the quilombola question. The focus of this article is to comprehend such a tendency shift in public administration with reference to the case of the Ribeira Valley in Paraná. Here, institutional discourses and historical documents are contributing to better understand such dynamics. The study reveals that, in spite of the fact that governmental policies are indicating a more integrated than sectored approach, in relation to the Laurel State Park and its surrounding areas there is still lots of work to be done.

This work analyzes geographical spacial interactions since the national and international agent’s action in the middle cities of Tocantins. This work is regarded at evaluating dynamics trade clothing in the city of Araguaína. It is seen that in this city is growing the number of enterprises in this area operating not only with national but also international capital. This fact overcomes hard hierarchical patterns. In this sense spacial interactions are modified once they become more complex and intense.

This paper has as objective the analysis of the recent evolution of a traditional Brazilian metropolis, Salvador and its metropolitan region, taken as an example considering its particular historical and geographical relevance. The research studies the challenges faced by Salvador and its region mainly as a result of the week instruments of urban planning that should be integrated in a metropolitan planning not existing until now. The current political and judicial conflicts between the State Government of Bahia and the Municipality of Salvador are also analyzed, together with the recent law of Estatuto da Metrópole (Law of Metropolis). As a result, the study shows the perspectives to face the challenges, which must be done in an integrated manner with all municipalities forming a single territorial unity of sociopolitical, economical and administrative governance capable of facing their problems and plan their future.

This article is the result of a research on the urban space production of Natal with a focus on its urban icons, from the perspective of what here is called peripheral entrepreneurship. Starting from the classical approach of the city as a growth machine, it’s possible to see the direction that the city has taken in recent years, with the construction of iconic buildings in the most ennobled areas of the city, in other words, in the real estate investment axis. With the analysis of the strategic plans, it became clear that the successive public management choices were linked before to the economic rationality and momentary opportunities, instead to the planning process itself.

The paper aims to understand one of the contradictions inherent in the urban crisis – that between domination and appropriation of space – against the backdrop of the practices of urban social movements that produce a space of conflict. We understand space of conflict as that where an encounter brought about by conflict gives rise to actions that demystify discourses and actions carried out by agents that seek to dominate space. The space of conflict is collective, insofar as it does not reduce citizenship and participation to discourse, but instead promotes the demands made by residents. Our hypothesis thus rests on the idea that resistance can produce a space of conflict. For this reason, the struggle waged by the residents of Maria Cursi (a slum in the city of São Paulo) together with the Movement in Defense of Slum Dwellers reveals the production of such space. In order to counteract the strategies for removing the slum from high value land in São Paulo’s peripheral space, these residents had to promote activities that politicized lived space in their battle against policymakers and others interested in displacement.

The second-hand clothing trade started widely in Bolivia in 1994. This kind of trade usually involves popular globalization activities, whose practices are often identified by State agencies as illegal, although with natural popular acceptance. It is established within a complex system of networks, and takes advantage of distribution (stock and transfer) meshes and knots, with the consequent conformation of connected territorial circuits. This paper aims at analyzing the second-hand clothing trade in three locations: Santa Cruz de la Sierra and Puerto Quijarro (Bolivia), and Corumbá (Brazil). The purpose is to identify the route and the nuances regarding the second-hand clothing distribution network from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Corumbá, on the Bolivia-Brazil border.

This text is part of an on going research. It deals with the relationship between the production and experience of the places on the edge of the Trans-Amazon Highway (BR 230), which cuts the North and a Northeast portion in the East-West direction. Considering its programmatic sense of occupation of the territory, as opposed to the explanation already accepted, which expresses the road as an engineering system, therefore, means to flow, is that I propose to think the road as an everyday living space, emphasizing the educational dimension to understand the existence of places. My purpose is to analyze the spatial imagination underlying the external understanding to the Trans-Amazon, in the educational plan, regarding the unique geographicity produced by local groups living near the road. Methodologically, I seek a dialogue between a phenomenological design and the existentialism, developing field of research procedures, literature review that supports the concepts of spatial imaginations, place and field education, critical reading of official documents in the MEC sites imagery record in dialogue with the representation of those that live on the edge of “Strip”. As an indication of preliminary findings point out: 1. The denial of places as a geopolitical strategy which is materialized in the educational process and planning politics; 2. The inescapable geographicity of groups that self recognize and are related contradictorily to the Trans-Amazon Highway; 3. The Countryside Education as opening or denial of the place, both for those who live it, and for those who do not live it, which can be ignorance widespread factor in terms of knowledge of the Amazon spatiality or coping and creation of a new geographic and cartographic knowledge about the places cut by “Strip”.

This article is the result of studies on cooperative education in western Paraná provided by business cooperatives, where the objective is to understand the qualification/disqualification relationships present in (in)formal education in agribusiness focused on capital and consumption. In the dialectic relationship between the rural environment and agro-industry, field workers (called integrated/associated workers) are constantly being qualified/disqualified in order to serve the interests of the (re)production of capital imposed by the agro-industrial complex and to meet international market requirements. While workers are being qualified/disqualified, they experience contradictory and confrontational processes in the social relations of production. Thus, understanding how integrated/cooperative families and agro-industry workers are educated to serve the interests of western Paraná’s agro-industrial capital is the general objective of this study. The study area comprises western Paraná, which is characterized by a strong agro-industrial presence in addition to significant trade and service sectors (which are partially focused on serving agroindustry demands). The research covers the period 1960–2010, which was exemplified by profound changes in the rural environment resulting from productive restructuring between capital and labor.

The study aims to analyze how the Industrial Complex in Suape influences the Massangana Community’s way of life and their occupational and professional opportunities in Cabo de Santo Agostinho-PE, in a local development perspective. Taking daily life as one of the categories of analysis, the research tried to understand, by the method fife history, how this industrial complex has influenced the Massangana population to abandon the old agricultural practices, to look for professional qualification, as well as creating new employment strategies and income, that added to the public policy of industrial development, will enable the Local Development. This research showed that the uncertainty about land tenure, associated with lack of investment in the creation of human capital to enable the exploitation of local workers by the Industrial Complex of Suape, prevents any local development in this community.

The category “Region” has been traditionally referred to by government policies for planning and control purposes. However, since the beginning of 21st century, with the ascension of Workers Party (PT), the category “territory” has become fundamental for implementing policies or territorial organization. Such adoption, in the political-institutional environment, produced results on Civil society of Sisal region, because the territory has become key word in the speech of social subjects (associations and agricultural cooperatives rural workers Union and non-governmental organizations). Taking this perception into consideration, the objective of the article is to offer reflection that contributes to in-depth debate about surface, political and organizational contents of the processes of use of the idea of region and/or territory to define techniques of application of public policies. Therefore, the text is structured in 3 parts which aim at explaining how, in specific environment, a region become a territory: the differentiation of semi-arid space, official recognition of Sisal Region in Bahia, and emergence of Sisal Territory.

This work analyzes the implementation of development policies and their repercussions in the municipality of São José dos Campos, SP, from the sanatorium period to construction of the technological city. From the 1920s to the 2000s, São José dos Campos underwent intense changes in its social, spatial, and economic development. During this period, the municipality, which had been focusing on providing hospital services to treat lung diseases, experienced intense industrialization associated with significant population growth and rapid expansion of its urban area. In parallel with the industrialization process, a second structure connected to the productive development of Science and Technology (S & T) began to be organized in the 1940s.

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The forms of exploitation and expropriation in the city imply the emergence of land and buildings occupations in peripheral and central areas. In Curitiba, slums, neighborhoods without infrastructure, popular housing, vacant land sites and buildings make part of multiple processes and temporalities that emerge of the city which is mythically taken as urban planning model. The research seeks to analyze organized land occupations in order to understand its links with the reproduction of the metropolis, revealing the scale of the place, of everyday life, of sociability in these occupations, their socio-political organization strategies and resistance, revealing urban struggles as an amalgam between local particularities and global processes, placing the debate in the realization of the right to the city. Key-words: urban struggles, production of space, land occupations, spatial justice.