URBAN STRUCTURING AND HOUSING ISSUES IN AGRIBUSINESS CITIES

Authors

  • Renato Pequeno Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Denise Elias Universidade Estadual do Ceará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/geo.v16i1.37591

Keywords:

agribusiness cities, urban structure, socio-spatial inequalities, housing

Abstract

Cities that polarize productive regions associated with agribusiness have gained prominence in Brazil’s urban network in the past three decades. The main objective of this article is to present some agribusiness cities, relating both its urban structuring and the socio-spatial dynamics, focusing on housing conditions. We defend four theses: first, globalized agribusiness worsens Brazil’s historic socio-spatial inequalities; second, agribusiness productive consumption and agro-industrial facilities are crucial for urban structuring in agribusiness cities; third, housing is a key variable for socio-spatial inequalities studies about urban space; forth, locational conditions of Minha Casa Minha Vida Program (PMCMV) social housing projects are a strong evidence of dissociation between public housing and urban policies. Our analysis object is a group of agribusiness cities spread over five Brazilian regions. The article has three leading questions: which elements stand out from urban structuring in those cities? How does housing take place by considering different space production agents? How have urban and housing policies been led in the past two decades? Then we develop our argumentation to support our theses.

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Author Biographies

Renato Pequeno, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Doutor em Arquitetura e Urbanismo pela Universidade de São Paulo,Professor Associado da Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC, Pesquisador CNPq.

Denise Elias, Universidade Estadual do Ceará

Doutora em Geografia pela Universidade de São Paulo, Professora da Universidade Estadual do Ceará-UECE, Pesquisadora CNPq

Published

2020-06-29

How to Cite

Pequeno, R., & Elias, D. (2020). URBAN STRUCTURING AND HOUSING ISSUES IN AGRIBUSINESS CITIES. GeoTextos, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.9771/geo.v16i1.37591

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