A valorização de espaços de desindustrialização na metrópole: a produção do espaço como produção da segregação

Abstract

By studying the process of deindustrialization and the ongoing restructuring of a fragment of the metropolis of Sao Paulo, the research seeks to understand aspects of reproduction of urbanization at the present time. This fragment, located north of the district of Santo Amaro, is made up from the great decades of industrialization of 1950/60/70, as an industrial area and a place of living of the working class. Industry was the main driver of urbanization of the place, organizing their social life, thus becoming its main reference, producing a fragmented everyday life. We note, however, that there is a relatively short period of establishment of industry there as early as the late 1980’s there is the beginning of the industrial decline in the fragment, a process that is intensified in the 1990s and is accentuated further at the moment. Thus, there is a disintegration of the social life of the fragment due to the removal or closure of industries as bars close, worker housing is vacated and demolished, and many buildings and industrial land remain derelict. At the same time, this area of deindustrialization, for having a privileged position in relation to already established areas as business centers, now include new enterprises related to the “modern” logical of the Southwest business axis, promoting a radical transformation of spatialities and deepening fragmentation of everyday life as well as socio-spatial segregation.