Where is aracaju-se growing? "Condominization", Urban Regulation and Environmental Conflicts. A Look at Jabotiana Neighborhood

Abstract

The Jabotiana neighborhood, in the western portion of Aracaju-SE, Brazil, is the largest vector of expansion, receiving the largest number of licensed housing between 2000-2014, due to the logic of market and the State, which transformed the rural landscape with the construction of buildings and vertical condominiums. The spatial configuration of these closed developments has formed clusters of dispersed condominiums, in areas interspersed with large voids, or environmental preservation, without offering basic sanitation, causing serious socio-environmental conflicts, such as recurrent flooding, the subject of judicial discussions. Therefore, this research seeks to analyze obstacles to urban capitalist production in the Jabotiana neighborhood in the last 43 years, as a materialization of the performance of the State and the market, with the production of housing projects, urban regulation and lack of urbanity. In order to develop this, bibliographic and information surveys were carried out on the licensing permits of vertical residential projects at the Empresa de Obras e Urbanismo Municipal (EMURB) and at CAIXA, tabulated and spatialized in cartography, which demonstrate the occupation processes and their characteristics. However, it was found that the Master Plan has a fundamental role in conflicts, by establishing indices that encourage verticalization, without infrastructure support.

Keywords: Urban expansion, Housing production, Market, State.