Precarious occupations in the city-region of Belém

Abstract

Belém has been, in recent years, marked by a polycentric regional urbanization process that produces a city-region with dispersed consumption spaces, disparity in income of social groups in dispersed areas, development of other centralities and configuration of new increasingly precarious spaces y more distant from the metropolitan core. In this context, the objective of this research was to analyze the nature of the new occupations on the edges of the metropolitan space of Belém, their insertion in the regional urbanization process and their repercussions in terms of the right to the city and spatial justice. For that, a qualitative approach and case study in Mosqueiro and Santa Bárbara do Pará were used, with bibliographical and documental surveys, exploratory fieldwork and interviews. Important aspects related to the precariousness of housing were found in the occupations studied, Bairro Novo, in Mosqueiro, and Comunidade Juquilândia, in Santa Bárbara do Pará, with deficiencies in services and infrastructure, creating limits regarding the guarantee of the right to the city of its residents.