O POVOAMENTO E A CIRCULAÇÃO NO VALE DO ARICANDUVA, DA COLONIZAÇÃO AO INÍCIO DA URBANIZAÇÃO: MOMENTOS DA FRAGMENTAÇÃO DO ESPAÇO NUMA PORÇÃO DA ZONA LESTE PAULISTANA

Abstract

The complex structure of urban ground and the orientation of circulation in the plateaus of São Paulo, established from colonial period, have left significant marks in the space configuration of AricanduvaValley, East zone of São Paulo city. This study seeks to show the complexity of space production, considering the genesis of the process involved. Although without any pretension to examine the set of elements involved in the production of the space of Aricanduva Valley, this article discuss some important aspects of local space configuration. Departing from the consideration of the inherited space of colonial economy, it is understood the existence, in different periods, of a fragmentation on the occupation of the space in Aricanduva Valley. Reflections of this situation are evidenced, for example, even though with the arrival of an urbanization process, from the overlapping of urban structures of São Paulo city to the old organization of local space, reaffirming a fragmentation also in the process of urban occupation of the Valley. An aspect which can be also inferred from the lecture of this article is that, for a better comprehension of certain existing conflicts today, related to the ownership and the property of urban ground, it’s many times necessary to retrace to the history of occupation of this place.