A diversificação socioespacial no subúrbio do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The objective of this work is to counter the decadence vision of the Rio suburb, published by the media in recent years, with a set of statistical and qualitative data about the region. The study area is Planning Area 3, which corresponds to the suburban area. What is proposed to be examined in this work is the intervention of real estate capital, starting from the production of new enterprises, in a region that has suffered, in general, a process of degradation and devaluation, verifying to what extent these ventures are able to reverse to the image of degradation and even attract the middle class with relative purchasing power. This evidence suggests the relativization of what is diffused by the media, since it is observed that the suburb is a very heterogeneous area and with an infrastructure that is increasingly being explored by urban modeling agents in order to create new spaces.